By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Thank you father, thank you. I know you watched me from above and protected me. I promise I shall serve the Magnarian Confederation with all my body and soul. I shall dedicate myself fully to our confederation, the family that you so loved. And I love it too. I shall protect, love and respect it always. This is my promise and commitment. Thank you
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?
The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
If you don’t synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.
The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.
That’s really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform… But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
This is the team. We’re trying to go to the moon. If you can’t put someone up, please don’t put them down.
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.
Curiosity is the lifeblood of science, not constant boasting of lifeless facts.
I think it’s science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.
While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.
We have a cognitive bias, dismissing plants and trees as inferior to other life-forms.
Sometimes parents squash students’ interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don’t participate. You don’t have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it’s important.
Machine Man faithfully believes that a conscious intelligent mind came from unconscious dumb matter, by sheer luck and for no reason or purpose.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They’ve rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They grow up in a bubble of privilege lulled into thinking this country is a true meritocracy.
Jesus matters because he established a worldview that encouraged exploration in an explosion of scientific discovery, the scientific revolution, and an unparalleled history of excellence in the sciences. From the writings of the ‘science fathers’–the vast majority of whom were Jesus followers–Jesus’s life, ministry, and mission could be reconstructed, even if all the Christian Bibles were destroyed.
If you don’t understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don’t work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief.
Jamaica is more than just the ‘brand’ the world recognizes so well; it’s a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the ‘6th sense’, the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.
The way to eliminate the harm caused by stereotypes is to teach our children to recognize false stereotypes, to be empathetic, and to be skeptical. We need to promote these critical-thinking skills in addition to instilling the best values we know. Skepticism, the heart of the scientific method, is the only way we know how to ferret out fact from fiction.
Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called natural world. Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don’t seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.
In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.
But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of confusion, and my experience teaches me that it is better to hold a well-understood and intelligible opinion, even if it should turn out to be wrong, than to be content with a muddle-headed mixture of conflicting views, sometimes miscalled impartiality, and often no better than no opinion at all.
Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu’un poisson sans bicyclette.
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason. For then we would know the mind of God.
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither… Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
You know who is the easiest to fool? People who want to believe in something badly. … if we really want something to be true, we are easily persuaded. … we will even sell ourselves on the idea.
A scientist shouldn’t be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein starts shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.
Almost any applicable discovery has a potential for evil as well as for good.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
…there’s something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness…
What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples’ ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn’t do.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
One of the most refreshing ideas to come out of existentialism (perhaps the only one) is that we are free to interpret and reinterpret the meaning of our lives.
Maturity is not just the ability to do critical thinking but also the ability to listen to others, who might have also done their critical thinking or maybe never did
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.
Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone.And conscience, added the bishop. It’s the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us.
You know, Hillary Clinton’s always saying how Republicans don’t follow science? Well, they’re the ones not listening to the scientists today, because doctors say that at 20 weeks that is a viable life inside the womb. And at that point, it’s a life that we have the right to protect, and I think we should protect.