Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (1971), Science and Human Life, Ayer Publishing, Retrieved on 2014-01-24
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    24 JAN 2014

     Rationalists and Scientists are Allies

    Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.
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    One plasters the god-of-the-gaps with knowledge, the other swats the bugs that come through.

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