Science as Salvation Quotes

“Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality into an irrational universe, but responding to a rationality with which the universe has always been saturated.”
― Mary Midgley, Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning

“The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and will get us nowhere.”
― Mary Midgley, Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning