Quotations used in “Evolution, Revolution”
“But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this-we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws.”
William Whewell – Bridgewater Treatise
“I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower form, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction.”
Charles Darwin – Descent of Man
“I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 109
“It has been said, and truly, that Christianity must be Science, and Science must be Christianity, else one or the other is false and useless; but neither is unimportant or untrue, and they are alike in demonstration. This proves the one to be identical with the other. Christianity as Jesus taught it was not a creed, nor a system of ceremonies, nor a special gift from a ritualistic Jehovah; but it was the demonstration of divine Love casting out error and healing the sick, not merely in the name of Christ, or Truth, but in demonstration of Truth, as must be the case in the cycles of divine light.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 135
“To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God’s word, or in the book of God’s works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both.”
Francis Bacon – Advancement of Learning
“We may, to be more precise, have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth.”
Thomas Kuhn
“… with the arrival of Kuhn’s account of scientific paradigms the case can be made that the way was open not only for the theories of science to look uncertain but also for the facts and observations on which they rested to be placed in jeopardy. The archetype of a fact, found in the strict and supposedly precise observations of science was itself to come under scrutiny and come to be seen by some not as an accurate description of an independent reality but as itself the product of a particular model and a particular conceptual framework.”
Hilary Lawson – Closure: A story of Everything
“What are termed natural science and material laws are the objective states of mortal mind. The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 484
“… Protestant thinkers warned that [Darwin's] hypotheses actually constituted an implicit challenge to the veracity of human knowledge itself. Darwin’s Life and Letters furnished many of these thinkers with ground for apprehension. Readers of that work discovered that Darwin was beset with the “horrible doubt” that “the convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.”
Jon Roberts
“The universe, like man, is to be interpreted by Science from its divine Principle, God, and then it can be understood; but when explained on the basis of physical sense and represented as subject to growth, maturity, and decay, the universe, like man, is, and must continue to be, an enigma.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 124
“We are in the midst of a revolution; physics are yielding slowly to metaphysics; mortal mind rebels at its own boundaries; weary of matter, it would catch the meaning of Spirit.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Christian Healing p 11
“It is ironical that physics, which has led the way for all the other sciences, is now moving towards a more accommodating view of mind, while the life sciences, following the path of last century’s physics, are trying to abolish the mind altogether.”
Paul Davies
“Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God – the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 332
“The Science of the first record proves the falsity of the second. If one is true, the other is false, for they are antagonistic. The first record assigns all might and government to God, and endows man out of God’s perfection and power. The second record chronicles man as mutable and mortal,-as having broken away from Deity and as revolving in an orbit of his own”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 522
“In its history of mortality, Darwin’s theory of evolution from a material basis is more consistent than most theories.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 547
“Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the material senses. Mind is more than matter, even as the infinite idea of Truth is beyond a finite belief. Man outlives finite mortal definitions of himself, according to a law of “the survival of the fittest.” Man is the eternal idea of his divine Principle, or Father. He is neither matter nor a mode of mortal mind, for he is spiritual and eternal, an immortal mode of the divine Mind. Man is the image and likeness of God, coexistent and coeternal with Him.”
Mary Baker Eddy – No and Yes p 25
“The belief that the universe, including man, is governed in general by material laws, but that occasionally Spirit sets aside these laws, – this belief belittles omnipotent wisdom, and gives to matter the precedence over Spirit.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 83
“The main source of the present day conflict between the spheres of religion and science lies in the concept of a personal God.”
Albert Einstein
“… if by ‘God’ one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying … it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.”
Carl Sagan
“The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p xi
“[Jesus'] mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 26
“Through many generations human beliefs will be attaining diviner conceptions, and the immortal and perfect model of God’s creation will finally be seen as the only true conception of being.”
Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p 260
