{"id":2254,"date":"2019-05-14T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2019-05-14T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:48:14","slug":"h-g-wells-on-science-and-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/2254","title":{"rendered":"H. G. Wells on science and humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/87\/Flammarion.jpg\" alt=\"Cosmos\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;It is this sense of unfathomable reality to which not only life but all present being is but a surface, it is this realization &#8220;of the gulf beneath all seeming and of the silence above all sounds,&#8221; which makes a modern mind impatient with the tricks and subterfuges of those ghost-haunted  apologists who are continually asserting and clamouring that science is dogmatic\u2014with would-be dogmas that are forever being overthrown. They  try to degrade science to their own level. But she has never pretended to that finality which is the quality of religious dogmas.&#8221; \u2014 H.G. Wells in &#8220;Science and Ultimate Truth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, am I the  only  one who always  confused  George  Orwell, H. G. Wells, and Orson Welles?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is this sense of unfathomable reality to which not only life but all present being is but a surface, it is this realization &#8220;of the gulf beneath all seeming and of the silence above all sounds,&#8221; which makes a modern mind impatient with the tricks and subterfuges of those ghost-haunted apologists who are continually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/2254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">H. G. Wells on science and humility<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}