“Science’s success did not need a God to explain it; the world was enough.”
Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist
Cosm (1998), Part 6, Chapter 3 (p. 325)
Newtonian Studies (1965).
Context: There is something for which Newton — or better to say not Newton alone, but modern science in general — can still be made responsible: it is splitting of our world in two. I have been saying that modern science broke down the barriers that separated the heavens and the earth, and that it united and unified the universe. And that is true. But, as I have said, too, it did this by substituting for our world of quality and sense perception, the world in which we live, and love, and die, another world — the world of quantity, or reified geometry, a world in which, though there is place for everything, there is no place for man. Thus the world of science — the real world — became estranged and utterly divorced from the world of life, which science has been unable to explain — not even to explain away by calling it "subjective".
True, these worlds are everyday — and even more and more — connected by praxis. Yet for theory they are divided by an abyss.
Two worlds: this means two truths. Or no truth at all.
This is the tragedy of the modern mind which "solved the riddle of the universe," but only to replace it by another riddle: the riddle of itself.
“Science’s success did not need a God to explain it; the world was enough.”
Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist
Cosm (1998), Part 6, Chapter 3 (p. 325)
“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”
Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World
"With Science on Our Side" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/01/09/with-science-on-our-side/9e5d2141-9d53-4b4b-aa0f-7a6a0faff845/, Washington Post (January 9, 1994) <br class="br">Variant: Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. <br class="br">Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Aleksandr Zinovyev (1922–2006) Russian writer
On the Social State of Marxism (1978)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 17
“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Variant: Science is the poetry of reality.
Context: The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
Jay Lemke (1946) American academic
Source: Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values. 1990, p. 126