"The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science."

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The theme of science is universal, yet Samuel Butler manages to capture its essence in a uniquely profound way. Taking a moment to internalize this can shift our mindset, reminding us that our perspective on science often shapes our reality.

About Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler may refer to:Samuel Butler (poet) (1613–1680), English poet and satirist
Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), English classical scholar
Samuel Butler (politician) (1825–1891), American politician
Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835–1902), English author of Erewhon
Samuel Butler (cricketer) (1850–1903), English cricketer
Samuel Butler (lawyer) (1930–2025), American lawyer
Sam Butler, Australian rules footballer for West Coast
Sam Butler, Australian rules footballer for Hawthorn
Bo Weavil Jackson, blues singer and guitarist also known as Sam Butler

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"It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it."

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"Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so."

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