(The works of Fr. Bacon, Vol. VII. London, 1826, p. 48).
9
…[T]hey discover… that the course of nature is regular and uniform, their whole faith totters, and fails to ruin. But being taught, by more reflection, that this very regularity and uniformity is the strongest proof of design and of a supreme intelligence, they return to that belief, which they had deserted; and they are now able to establish it on a firmer and more durable foundation (The Natural History of Religion, p. 51).
10
[The scientist’s] religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of a natural law, which reveals the intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings becomes an utterly insignificant reflection (Ideas and Opinions, p. 40).
11
Albert Einstein, Letters to Solovine: 30.III.52.
12
Брахот, 10а.
13
For as long as nature and man are conceived as His creations, and that is the indispensable condition of highly developed religious life, the quest for the hidden life of the transcendent element in such creation will always form one of the most important preoccupations of the human mind (Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, p. 38).
14
Optics, Query, p. 28.
15
The omnipresent God is acknowledged and by the Jews is called Place (Westfall R.S.: Never at Rest, p. 511).
16
Ideas and Opinions , p. 40.
17
The Open Society and Its Enemies, volume II, Hegel and Marx, p. 228. Выделение здесь и во всех других приведенных в книге цитатах – мое. – .Ф.Б
18
Burtt E.A. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science; Whitehead A.N. Science and the Modern World.
19
…The structural homogeneity of the world seems to resist any ‘deeper’ explanation: it remains a mystery (K. Popper, Realism and the Aim of Science, p. 152).
