"In the end, every scheme and every science……" — David Berlinski
"In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all."
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David Berlinski
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29 Quotes by David Berlinski
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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now…
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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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