Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.
An opinion or belief that deviates from established or orthodox doctrine.
If there was an infinity of worlds, as Bruno maintained, for whom in particular had Christ died on this earth? If the universe was eternal, what would become of God the Creator? Acceptance of the Copernican cosmology was a religious...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
Also, every myth represents the absolute truth within its society. The word ‘myth’ is derived from the Greek word mythos, which can mean ‘story’, but also means ‘word’, in the sense of ‘the final word’. Indeed, anybody who dared to...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
One group of the religious looked upon the absorption with secondary causes as a deflection from contemplation of the divine Primary Cause and hence suspect, if not heretical, especially when propositions like the Copernican hypothesis, touted as absolute truths, contradicted...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
You're falling out of reach - Defying gravity - I know you're out there, somewhere out there
Source: Somewhere Out There by Our Lady Peace
I Was Just Guessing at Numbers and Figures
Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I’m going back to the start.
