Food for thought – Page 5 – THE BLOT REPORT

June 10, 2017

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

June 4, 2017

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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and very nearly zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

June 4, 2017

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There can be no truce between science and religion.

May 25, 2017

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Flags and anthems are unimportant. They are just symbols. You need to respect and fight for democratic institutions, or you will lose everything, flags and anthems included.

May 13, 2017

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Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

May 1, 2017

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Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

May 1, 2017

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Non-overlapping magisterial bullshit

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Steven Gould (1941-2002), the late American palaeontologist, stated in one of his many essays that religion and science occupied “non-overlapping magisteria”. This means that religion and science occupy separate domains….

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April 26, 2017

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To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

April 15, 2017

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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein

April 8, 2017

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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.

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