If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about…

- David Berlinski

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy a…

- David Berlinski

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the …

- David Berlinski

Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, th…

- David Berlinski

Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excus…

- David Berlinski

At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a unive…

- David Berlinski

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an ef…

- David Berlinski

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

- David Berlinski

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

- David Berlinski