Dogma quotes
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"Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved."
"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks."
"Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!"
"Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom."
"Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas."
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"Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute."
"After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question..."
"Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant."
"The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma."
"I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations."
"The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology."
"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
"AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air."
"Every dogma must have its day."
"A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma."
"The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory."
"Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake."
"Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense."
"Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service."
"There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy."
". . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . ."
"Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery."
"My karma just ran over my dogma."
"All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration."
"Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed."
