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Ian Barbour quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.”
-- Ian Barbour

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“The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.”
-- Ian Barbour

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“Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.”
-- Ian Barbour

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“Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.”
“No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.”
“This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.”
“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”
“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”
“Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.”

Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, April 15, 2003.
“The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.”
“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”
“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”

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