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> [For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/for-all-the-great-dreams-profitlessly-invested-in-the-digital/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

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## More by David Berlinski

> [In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/in-the-end-every-scheme-and-every-science-is-justified-by-itself-or/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/for-all-the-great-dreams-profitlessly-invested-in-the-digital/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/the-motion-of-the-mind-is-conveyed-along-a-cloud-of-meaning-there-is/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [“The argument that Hawking has offered may be conveyed by question-and-answer, as in the Catholic catechism.   A Catechism of Quantum Cosmology Q: From…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/the-argument-that-hawking-has-offered-may-be-conveyed-by-question-and/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/if-moral-statements-are-about-something-then-the-universe-is-not/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/before-you-can-ask-is-darwinian-theory-correct-or-not-you-have-to-ask/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [“What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/what-hitler-did-not-believe-and-what-stalin-did-not-believe-and-what/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/bystanders-wandered-in-and-out-of-the-merchant-s-stall-passing-the/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [“Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have “misled science into a dead end,” the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/whatever-the-degree-to-which-darwin-may-have-misled-science-into-a/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/no-distinction-in-kind-rather-than-degree-between-ourselves-and-the/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/the-desire-to-see-and-the-desire-to-ratify-what-one-has-seen-are/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/every-computer-divides-itself-into-its-hardware-and-its-software-the/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/i-do-not-know-whether-any-of-this-is-true-i-am-certain-that-the/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/for-the-most-part-it-is-true-ordinary-men-and-women-regard/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [ The definition of a limit is essentially his \[Cauchy's\] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/the-definition-of-a-limit-is-essentially-his-cauchy-s-creation-and-is/)

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