Science and religion, innovations, citizens

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. – Albert Einstein

 

Retort

 

What the two have in common is a stick to move along with. That stick is the verb ‘to believe’. But that’s where the similarities end. The stick that science uses has ‘believe’ meaning ‘to suspect to be true’; to the religious stick holders, ‘believe’ means ‘to want to be true’.

 

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic. – Winston Churchill

 

Retort

 

Innovations guided by logic are not a problem. The problem is when the rhetoric about innovations makes logic-based claims while the innovations are anything but.

 

If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what citizenship means. – Theresa May

 

Retort 1

 

Nowhere simply consists of citizens of somewhere else.

 

Retort 2

 

We are the citizens of wherever our vital interests are located. Our vital interests are located wherever our data is stored.