"Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of……" — David Berlinski
"Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather."
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David Berlinski
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29 Quotes by David Berlinski
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be…
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories,…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula…
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Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
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I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know…
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
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Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that…
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic…
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The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.
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