May 2012
Intermediate to advanced
474 pages
11h 26m
English
Part I
Perspective
‘Science as it exists at present is partly agreeable, partly disagreeable. It is agreeable through the power which it gives us of manipulating our environment, and to a small but important minority, it is agreeable because it affords intellectual satisfaction. It is disagreeable because, however we may seek to disguise the fact, it assumes a determinism which involves, theoretically, the power of predicting human actions; in this respect, it seems to lessen human power.’
Bertrand Russell ‘Is Science Superstitious?’ (in ‘Sceptical Essays’)
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