“Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living . What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.”
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”
― Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
― Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.”
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“But I do not think it necessary to believe that the same God who gave us our senses, our speech, our intellect, would have put aside the use of these, to teach us instead such things as with their help we could find out for ourselves, particularly in the case of these sciences of which there is not the smallest mention in the Scriptures; and, above all, in astronomy, of which so little notice is taken that the names of none of the planets are mentioned. Surely if the intention of the sacred scribes had been to teach the people astronomy, they would not have passed over the subject so completely.”
― Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
― Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
“More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of reading them part of who you are, especially if they are the words of exceptionally promising writers. If there is poison in the words, you are poisoned; if there is nourishment, you are nourished; if there is beauty, you are made a little more beautiful. In Hebrew, the word dabar means both word and also deed. A word doesn’t merely say something, it does something. It brings something into being.”
― Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC
― Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC
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