Arthur Stanley Eddington Quotes

Religious Creeds Are A Great Obstacle To Any Full Sympathy Between The Outlook Of The Scientist And The Outlook Which Religion Is So Often Supposed To Require ... The Spirit Of Seeking Which Animates Us Refuses To Regard Any Kind Of Creed As Its Goal. It Would Be A Shock To Come Across A University Where It Was The Practice Of The Students To Recite Adherence To Newton's Laws Of Motion, To Maxwell's Equations And To The Electromagnetic Theory Of Light. We Should Not Deplore It The Less If Our Own Pet Theory Happened To Be Included, Or If The List Were Brought Up To Date Every Few Years. We Should Say That The Students Cannot Possibly Realise The Intention Of Scientific Training If They Are Taught To Look On These Results As Things To Be Recited And Subscribed To. Science May Fall Short Of Its Ideal, And Although The Peril Scarcely Takes This Extreme Form, It Is Not Always Easy, Particularly In Popular Science, To Maintain Our Stand Against Creed And Dogma.

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