“Time and again, racist ideas have not been cooked up from the boiling pot of ignorance and hate. Time and again, powerful and brilliant men and women have produced racist ideas in order to justify the racist policies of their era, in order to redirect the blame for their era’s racial disparities away from those policies and onto Black people.”
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.
—Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
—Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.”
― System of Nature
― System of Nature
“But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.”
― Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
― Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
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