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John Tyndall est un scientifique et alpiniste irlandais.

✵ 2. août 1820 – 4. décembre 1893
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John Tyndall: Citations en anglais

“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.”

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Vitality.
Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

“[T]he most fatal error that could be committed by the leaders of religious thought is the attempt to force into their own age conceptions which have lived their life, and come to their natural end in preceding ages.”

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p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

“The yoke of religion has not always been easy, nor its burden light—a result arising, in part from the ignorance of the world at large, but more especially from the mistakes of those who had the charge and guidance of a great spiritual force, and who guided it blindly.”

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p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

“[W]aste in intellect may be as much an incident of growth as waste in nature.”

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p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

“Then arose the sect of the Gnostics—men who know — who laid claim to the possession of a perfect science, and who, if they were to be believed, had discovered the true formula for what philosophers called 'the Absolute.' But these speculative Gnostics were rejected by the conservative and orthodox Christians of their day as fiercely as their successors the Agnostics —men who don't know—are rejected by the orthodox in our own.”

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p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

“To Principal Caird… imaging of the Unseen is of inestimable value. It furnishes an objective counterpart to religious emotion, permanent but plastic—capable of indefinite change and purification in response to the changing thoughts and aspirations of mankind.”

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p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

“The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.”

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Matter and Force.
Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

“I leave it to you to compare this Christian hero [Paul] with some of the 'freethinkers' of our own day, who, 'more intolerant than the intolerance they deprecate,' flaunt in public their cheap and trumpery theories of the great Apostle and the Master whom he served.”

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p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

“Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men — a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God.”

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Science and Man.
Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

“[T]he Christian philosopher of to-day has larger capacities and fuller knowledge than the Israelite of the time of Moses. What the one accepted as literal truth the other cannot accept save as a myth or figure. The children of Israel received without idealisation the statements of their great lawgiver. To them the tables of the law were true tablets of stone, prepared, engraved, broken, and re-engraved; while the graving tool which thus inscribed the law was held undoubtingly to be the finger of God. To us such conceptions are impossible. We may by habit use the words, but we attach to them no definite meaning.”

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p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

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