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In the pages that follow, I will show that this bleak assessment of the state of the world is wrong.
“Very little in nature is detectable by unaided human senses.”
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
“What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.”
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
“Dr. Mitalipov, 52, has shaken the field of genetics by perfecting a version of the world’s tiniest surgery:”
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“This is what we can achieve when, as Feynman said, we keep learning more about how not to fool ourselves.”
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
“religion and science are engaged in a kind of war: a war for understanding, a war about whether we should have good reasons for what we accept as true.”
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
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