Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Barzun , Jacques (1964), Science: the glorious entertainment, Retrieved on 2011-12-21
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    21 DEC 2011

     Science is an All-Pervasive Energy

    It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.
    Folksonomies: science culture
    Folksonomies: science culture
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    A "faith as fanatical as any in history"... not sure I see the reasoning behind this quote.

    21 DEC 2011

     Science is "Glorious Entertainment"

    Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.
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    Another quote I don't quite agree with. True, in a sense, that science is a product of our minds, but if it were only that, then it would be fantasy as well.

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