28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
God of the Gaps
The man in the street will, therefore, twist the statement that the scientist has come to the end of meaning into the statement that the scientist has penetrated as far as he can with the tools at his command, and that there is something beyond the ken of the scientist. This imagined beyond, which the scientist has proved he cannot penetrate, will become the playground of the imagination of every mystic and dreamer. The existence of such a domain will be made the basis of an orgy of rationali...The gaps in what science knows gets filled with gods and ghosts, but the atheist also fills it with the idea that chance rules the universe.
01 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
The Patient is a Besieged City
The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.A good metaphor from Alexander of Tralles.