"The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?"

-- Lesslie Newbigin

#Belief Quotes #Birth Quotes #Argument Quotes

“A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.”
“India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.”

Source : William Dalrymple (2004). “White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India”, p.7, Penguin
“Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear answers, but you're not stuck. The minute you represent the situation to yourself as being stuck, though, that's exactly how you'll feel. We must be very careful about the metaphors we allow ourselves to use.”
“The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, if you look at its website, it basically deals with commercial disputes, it's not allowed to deal with matters involving children, it's not allowed to deal with criminal matters, it's subject to judicial review, it's subject to the Human Rights Act, it's subject to the Children's Act, and it's completely proper and right that it should be subject to all those things.”
“Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.”
“It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.”
“Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory”

Source : Jean-Claude Ellena (2011). “Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is - and has been - far too high.”

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