Race Quotes by David Berlinski

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— David Berlinski