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"In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel."

Jonathan Sacks on Science

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  • "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

    Albert Einstein on Science

  • "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

  • "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

  • "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

    Albert Einstein on Science

  • "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by Jonathan Sacks

  • "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology."

  • "Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race."

  • "Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past."

  • "Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity."

  • "Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver."

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