¶ Religion
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Religion:
“As these individual explorers of the sciences went off into their laboratory and went down with their blinders on, men of enormous integrity, they said they never found anything in that particular area that seemed to confirm any of the given religions. Therefore, atheism began to develop, not as something you profess-- but there was sort of a double life. These men tended to honor their forebears, honor the literature, honor the humanism, and they would say probably the trouble is that I am such a narrow person from being in such a narrow field, that I just don’t understand your other things. But there is nothing that I am doing experimentally here that seems to tell me that what the people have said about how the Universe was put together and the way it works, particularly from a religious viewpoint, that really seems to be valid. I think these people over here are dear muddleheaded people, but I am just going to have to leave them alone for my own professional part. So what has been thought of as an atheism is really just an evasion. It wasn’t a declaration of againstness, and was not something against religion, but there seemed to be nothing to take its place.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #4, p. 130. 6 Jul’62
