...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
conflicthistoryreligionsciencesimilaritystatement
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
evolutionhumoursciencetso-funny
Science must not impose any philosophy,any more than the telephone must tellus what to say.
imposephilosophysciencetelephone
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it it really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one.
new-atheismphilosophyscience
While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful fields, is so fixed in the scientific mind that it cannot resist talking like this. It talks about the idea suggested by one scrap of bone as if it were something like the aeroplane which is constructed at last out of whole scrapheaps of scraps of metal. The trouble with the professor of the prehistoric is that he cannot scrap his scrap. The marvellous and triumphant aeroplane is made out of a hundred mistakes. The student of origins can only make one mistake and stick to it.
evolutionscience
Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.
science
Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium.
healthscience