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We seem to be becoming an increasingly religious country, and because religion supplants evidence and logic with faith -- and faith can mean anything you want it to -- politicians can get away with appealing to faith without having to justify themselves.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

We seem to be becoming an increasingly religious country, and because religion supplants evidence and logic with faith -- and faith can mean anything you want it to -- politicians can get away with appealing to faith without having to justify themselves.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Atheism #Religion #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #LakeSantaFe #Florida

A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #LakeSantaFe #Florida

A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

We seem to be becoming an increasingly religious country, and because religion supplants evidence and logic with faith -- and faith can mean anything you want it to -- politicians can get away with appealing to faith without having to justify themselves.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Atheism #Religion #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

We seem to be becoming an increasingly religious country, and because religion supplants evidence and logic with faith -- and faith can mean anything you want it to -- politicians can get away with appealing to faith without having to justify themselves.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Atheism #Religion #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

We seem to be becoming an increasingly religious country, and because religion supplants evidence and logic with faith -- and faith can mean anything you want it to -- politicians can get away with appealing to faith without having to justify themselves.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))

⬆ #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Atheism #Religion #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico