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Tuesday After Trinity 23 - MP

Psalm 105 (The Psalter, Day 21, Morning)

In the latter times some shall depart

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.” I Timothy 4: 1-3

The Science is Certain

“If you thought that science was certain — well, that is just an error on your part.”—Richard P. Feynman, The Quotable Feynman, p. 349, Princeton University Press

A Strange Superstition

“The strange superstition has arisen in the Western world that we can start all over again, remaking human nature, human society, and the possibilities of happiness, as though the knowledge and experience of our ancestors were now entirely irrelevant.”—Sir Roger Scruton, Becoming a Family, City Journal, Spring, 2001

News or PR?

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”—George Orwell — maybe, I can’t find a source — or maybe this:

Questions

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”—Richard P. Feynman