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Oct 17, 2023 · The authors view the period of 1930-70 as the first “gilded age” of humanism. Books like The Humanist Outlook (1968), edited by the philosopher A. J. Ayer, helped to define humanism in terms of ethical issues, Karl Popper’s “open society” and an intellectual outlook based on the scientific method. The 1960s also saw the founding of a Humanist Parliamentary Group, leading to greater ...

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2 days ago · Years ago, when I was a student at Caltech, I remember the physicist Richard Feynman saying: “You can know more than you can ever prove.” Never was this scientific intuition used to greater effect than by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who in the early 20th century concocted a model of the ...

Jan 28, 2025 · into the wriggling earth for a rainbow with an honest spade. Dannie Abse, “Letter to Alex Comfort” (1977) From 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, a group of poets and musicians began to gather each month at the Ethical Church in Bayswater, drawing an eager audience to the dimly lit ...

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