If a scholar who studied Nazi concentration camps did not feel revolted by the evidence no one would say he was unobjective but rather fear for his sanity and moral sensitivity. Feeling may twist judgment, but the lack of it may twist it
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“Whiteness, it turns out, is but a pigment of the imagination.”
― Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
― Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
“The principal aim of this book has been to reveal something of the complexity of the relationship between science and religion as they have interacted in the past. Popular generalizations about that relationship, whether couched in terms of war or peace, simply do not stand up to serious investigation. There is no such thing as the relationship between science and religion.”
― Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
― Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
“I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Early in the year, I had tried to explain to Helen that science is always changing. To which she asked, “You mean that this stuff is wrong?” “Some of it.” “Then why am I learning it?” Because the state says you have to, I thought. But what I said was “Science is a way of answering questions about the world around us. What you are learning is our current understanding of the universe. As we learn more, our understanding changes.” “I still hate it.”
― How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
― How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
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