Lester del Rey on Philosophy
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Lester del Rey, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Lester del Rey, entry #7774: "Evolution’s logical, unlike religion. Even the Church will agree with that. You have to take religion on faith and you can’t test it by common sense."
Attributed to Lester del Rey, entry #47068: "An accident of careless handling at a dumping point had touched off a great atomic explosion, somewhere in central Europe. That country had thought itself attacked during the disa…"
2 Quotes by Lester del Rey on Philosophy
"Evolution’s logical, unlike religion. Even the Church will agree with that. You have to take religion on faith and you can’t test it by common sense."
"An accident of careless handling at a dumping point had touched off a great atomic explosion, somewhere in central Europe. That country had thought itself attacked during the disarmament hiatus, and had struck at China, which had bombarded Russia, which thought it was being attacked by America. The confusion was straightened out in less than two hours, but by then two-thirds of the world had been killed."