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Herbert J. Muller
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“Men of science, men given to "realism," are likely to make a clean sweep of old interests and sentiments as so much rubbish. They regard religion as superstition, metaphysics as moonshine, art as primitive pastime, and all ritual as monkey-business; they apparently assume that because the traditional answers to old needs have been discredited, the needs themselves have vanished.”
Herbert J. Muller (1905–1980) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Science and Criticism (1943) ch. 1, sec. 1
“Although science is no doubt the Jehovah of the modern world, there is considerable doubt about the glory of its handiwork.”
Herbert J. Muller (1905–1980) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Science and Criticism (1943) ch. 3, sec. 1
“To say...that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.”
Herbert J. Muller (1905–1980) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Science and Criticism (1943) ch. 5, sec. 1
“Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry book-keeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.”
Herbert J. Muller (1905–1980) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Uses of the Past (1957) ch. 8
“It is open to question whether men today, despite the enormous increase in their knowledge, wealth, and power, can yet endure a universe that leaves them alone, or can manage to live in freedom.”
Herbert J. Muller (1905–1980) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Loom of History (1958) ch. 1, sec. 3
“It is fitting that her [Ancient Egypt's] most enduring works remain the pyramids. They are monuments to the majesty of her ideal, and to its basic absurdity; to the promise of her beginnings, and to its curse.”
Herbert J. Muller (1905–1980) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Loom of History (1958) ch. 4, sec. 1
“It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.”
Herbert J. Muller (1905–1980) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Freedom in the Western World (1963) ch. 2, sec. 3