"Western culture was, thanks to Christianity, a culture of sin. The Fall - and the first one had been sexual! - engaged the whole personality of man in melioristic pursuits , which provided various types of sublimation, with the acquiring of knowledge at the head. In this sense Christianity favored empiricism, though, of course, unwittingly: it opened the possibility for it and gave it the chance to grow."
S. Lem in: His Master's Voice
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