Rosalind Franklin on belief
Rosalind Franklin26 quotes“In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.”
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In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin I would willingly go more primitive if it were necessary to preserve my freedom.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin
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