Letter: As Oscar observed

Published 4 July 1998

From B. Smith

Having read the correspondence on religion and science
(Letters, 6 June, p 65),
I was reminded of a line by Oscar Wilde: “Religions die when they are
proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”

bsmith@ug.cs.su.oz.au

Issue no. 2141 published 4 July 1998

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