Word: agnosticism
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The pictures show no canals or other fine detail, but when the image intensifier was first attached to the telescope, Astronomer Wilson pointed it at Mars and threw the brightened image on the picture tube's face to look at it visually. "Suddenly," says Dr. Wilson, "there were canals...
One of the 20th century's more fashionable agnostic creeds is "scientific humanism." That creed is not without its heresies, and in last week's humanistic New Statesman and Nation, competitors matched wits in naming them. Samples:
He was as agnostic about religion as about love. The human brain, he said, was not constructed to exercise itself in the realms of the infinite. This conviction shut out poetry as well as God, and Bennett could only sigh: "I should not object to having a religious creed. I...
Died. Dr. Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 61, popular philosopher, author (The Book of Joad, The Testament of Joad and 46 other serious-to-potboiling books), University of London professor; of cancer; in London. Puffin-shaped, goat-bearded and brilliantly voluble ("I can explain anything to anybody"), C. E. M. Joad...
Lyons: I am not an atheist or an agnostic. I believe in God.