Again, science has the power to silence heretics. Today it is the only institution that can claim authority. Like the Church in the past, it has the power to destroy, or marginalise, independent thinkers. (Think how orthodox medicine reacted to Freud, and orthodox Darwinians to Lovelock.) In fact, science does not yield any fixed picture of things, but by censoring thinkers who stray too far from current orthodoxies it preserves the comforting illusion of a single established worldview.


The Human: Against Fundamentalism - Religious and Scientific (p. 19) - Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)

John Gray Quotes

Again, science has the power to silence heretics. Today it is the only institution that can claim authority. Like the Church in the past, it has the...

Again, science has the power to silence heretics. Today it is the only institution that can claim authority. Like the Church in the past, it has the...

Again, science has the power to silence heretics. Today it is the only institution that can claim authority. Like the Church in the past, it has the...

Again, science has the power to silence heretics. Today it is the only institution that can claim authority. Like the Church in the past, it has the...