There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.