07-29-2015, 07:48 AM
As to problems with space observatories, just look to todays' comic page for a "Close To Home" moment:
http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/cl/
As to science & religion, I really do think Einstein had an amazing grasp of their interconnected roles:
"I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research. Only those who realize the immense efforts and, above all, the devotion without which pioneer work in theoretical science cannot be achieved are able to grasp the strength of the emotion out of which alone such work, remote as it is from the immediate realities of life, can issue. What a deep conviction of the rationality of the universe and what a yearning to understand, were it but a feeble reflection of the mind revealed in this world, Kepler and Newton must have had to enable them to spend years of solitary labor in disentangling the principles of celestial mechanics! "
from 1930 New Yorker article: http://www.endlesssearch.co.uk/science_c...ligion.htm
http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/cl/
As to science & religion, I really do think Einstein had an amazing grasp of their interconnected roles:
"I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research. Only those who realize the immense efforts and, above all, the devotion without which pioneer work in theoretical science cannot be achieved are able to grasp the strength of the emotion out of which alone such work, remote as it is from the immediate realities of life, can issue. What a deep conviction of the rationality of the universe and what a yearning to understand, were it but a feeble reflection of the mind revealed in this world, Kepler and Newton must have had to enable them to spend years of solitary labor in disentangling the principles of celestial mechanics! "
from 1930 New Yorker article: http://www.endlesssearch.co.uk/science_c...ligion.htm