|
Christopher Hitchens
(13 Apr 1949 - 15 Nov 2011)
English-American author, journalist and lecturer who was described in the New York Times obituary as “a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell.”
|
Science Quotes by Christopher Hitchens (2 quotes)
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason.
— Christopher Hitchens
…...
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard—or try to turn back—the measureable advances that we have made.
— Christopher Hitchens
In God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007, 2009), 282.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
