“By the glare of false science betray’d,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.”
The Hermit
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James Beattie 18
Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher 1735–1803Related quotes
24 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“[T]he blind lead the blind, it's the democratic way.”
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)
Source: "With Edgar Varèse in the Gobi Desert", p. 166
Source: NOS4A2
Ibid., p. 124
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A sua cara lívida está de um verde falso e desnorteado. Noto-o, entre o ar difícil do peito, com a fraternidade de saber que também estarei assim.
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 94
Context: Religion and science go together. As I've said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. They are interdependent and have a common goal—the search for truth. Hence it is absurd for religion to proscribe Galileo or Darwin or other scientists. And it is equally absurd when scientists say that there is no God. The real scientist has faith, which does not mean that he must subscribe to a creed. Without religion there is no charity. The soul given to each of us is moved by the same living spirit that moves the universe.
An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1940), Introduction, p. 15
1940s
Context: Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.
“A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity”
The critical review, or annals of literature, Volume XXVI http://books.google.es/books?id=aItKAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=es#v=onepage&q&f=false, by A Society of Gentlemen (1768) p. 450