"People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe." - Hippocrates
Today, Hippocrates might ask “Why, now that you understand the causes of many things in the universe, are there so many who look away, and cling tenaciously to delusion?”
Quote from Ann Druyan
http://ffrf.org/fttoday/1998/jan_feb98/druyan.html“Our kids don't have a dream of the future anymore. It's been a long time since we've had one. You ask yourself, well, why would they want to be scientists when everything in their society is telling them you've just got to believe, and it will be true. We haven't had a national political leader in a very long time who was even comfortable with the language and the methods of science.”
She actually said that in Dec 1997. Now, ten years on...
