Clark Adams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

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