Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Eddington , A. S. (2004-05-30), Science And The Unseen World, Retrieved on 2012-04-26Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: religion Memes
26 APR 2012
Science Cannot have Creeds
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...We should not force students to blindly recite laws and theorems because that would reduce it to religion.