Quote by Juan Enriquez

As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950s, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stem-cell research.

As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture t

Summary

This quote highlights the negative consequences of the intersection between religion and politics. By intertwining these two domains, our society regresses in certain aspects. It suggests that the act of treating science like the controversial topic of sex in the 1950s leads to a hindrance in progress. This is reflected in areas such as the suppression or rejection of evolution theories and essential research like stem-cell research. The quote implies that this cultural and political mix causes the nation to lag behind developing nations and jeopardizes potential advancements that could have significant positive impacts on human life.

Topics

Science Inspirational

By Juan Enriquez

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about th

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

Funny

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my ex

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Difficulty

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Love

Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had

Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or 19 and then Liam when I was 23 and Molly, I had when I was a little older.

Mom

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for eve

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Orison Swett Marden

Ability

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a

I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own.

Mom

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellienc

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

Computers

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terror

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

War

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

Wallace Stevens

Authors & Writing

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for i

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Shirley MacLaine

Change