Science Can Be the Superstition of the Ignorant

Post date: Jan 04, 2011 6:17:26 AM

The reductive spirit that shows itself so trivially in trivial people, and has made some of the most persuasive thinkers of the past century embrace a man-centred world, will not do for him. He does not want a world that prates solemnly about Science, without any of the doubts that haunt the great scientists. Science, which seems to offer certainty, is the superstition of ignorant multitudes, who think it means toothpaste and tampons. The hungry sheep look up, and are fed foul air and poisonous garbage (279).

Robertson Davies.

Murther and Walking Spirits.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Inc. 1991. ISBN 0771025661 (Out of Print.)