On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Linda M. Woolf re-posted this archived note from
David Kreiner::
>
> If you can stand any more on this thread, I will just offer the
> following quote, which I read to my Research Design & Analysis
> classes every January. After I read it, I usually ask for guesses as
> to who said it. The most common guess is Albert Einstein.
>
> "Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man
> knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
> Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values.
> The two are not rivals. They are complementary."
>
> This is from The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., selected by
> Coretta Scott King, Newmarket Press, 1984.
>
Now I just know I'm going to get in trouble over this one, but the
devil makes me do it. Linda just suggested that we should
ignore the ethical views of Bertrand Russell because of his
questionable ethics concerning Negroes, Mike Scoles pointed out that
this is an ad hominem argument. I agree. Here's another way of looking
at it.
I seem to recall that Martin Luther King was found to have plagiarized
part of his Ph.D. thesis (someone, _please_ correct me if I'm wrong).
Does this mean that this questionable lapse in ethics requires us to
ignore the rest of his pronouncements on ethics? Pushed to the limit,
this policy would even cause us to refuse to use computers because
they depend on the work of that notorious racist, Shockley, who
invented the transistor.
But considering how much time I'm spending on my e-mail tonight, maybe
that's not such a bad idea after all.
-Stephen
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