The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there–but why is the past so different from the future?
Human ‘ are living for fulfilling other specific Human Desires – without even even understanding how they’re getting in the complex Trap made by themselves. – T∆Nv€€π
Si se produjese la explosión de una supernova a quinientos años luz de la Tierra, pereceríamos; según Evans:-Pondría fin al asunto -dijo alegremente.
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
There are a million threads from the past intertwined to make the ropes and cables of the modern world.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.
Absolute is infinitesimal, almost nonexistent “materially.” It is smaller than any conceivable shape or object, smaller than a quark, not even the size of the Planck length. In its volume, every divided world and Everything inhabited by emptiness is “bigger” than the Absolute. But only this nothing, emptiness, makes the life of the Absolute possible. If the One is undivided, it is without motion; the power becomes a weakness because it is without an exit.
We don’t want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.
The form of unique intelligence is one of the reasons some people think that animals don’t think. Because they can’t express joy or fear, animals must not be able to feel them. They think in sounds, places, smells, memory association kind of like temple (a girl with autism) does. Except that temple learned to express herself with words. She can serve as a link between big business and activists. The link between both worlds
On the second flight, we were doing a lot of science experiments, and we’ve got a really cool window called the cupola. It’s a big, circular window with six panes around, sort of at angles so you can see the Earth, you can see the edge of the Earth, you can go out – look out into the universe. It’s pretty spectacular.
Scientists seem to say something like this:The value of science is beyond question. That means that we have to minimize its catastrophic dangers. They somehow overlook another logical option: The value of science is irrelevant, since the dangers are far too great.
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
It is a matter of common experience that disorder will tend to increase if things are left to themselves… However, one can create order out of disorder[.]
I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.
Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?
Science is the process of trying to understand for what is misunderstood and the ability to misunderstand the understood
I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.
It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena – they no longer restrict themselves to Greek!
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.
I think there are lots of those moments when we meet people – listeners at a meet-and-greet – and they tell us that they’ve changed their major to forensic science, or criminal justice, or they’ve become a victim’s advocate.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes–most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence.
Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it no longer seems strange to us that what the philosopher terms an ‘idea’ is a process which can cause chemical changes in the body.
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them
I’ve never understood the phrase they have chemistry before now. After all, everything is chemistry. Everything is combination and reaction. The atoms in by body align themselves with the atoms in his.
The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it’s up to us to make sense of it and give it value.
The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.
Society’s challenge lies in striking a balance between fostering innovation and enacting effective regulation to establish an efficient, secure, and sustainable financial system.
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn’t need anything. Do something for science, for God’s sake!
As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.”Heinrich Hertz’ Keynote Address at the Imperial Palace, Berlin, August, 1891
What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents’ nightmares, as dog-walkers for those majoring in computer science. But, for me, the humanities are not only relevant but also give us a toolbox to think seriously about ourselves and the world.
Whatever their neurological and molecular antecedents, hallucinations feel real. They are sought out in many cultures and considered a sign of spiritual enlightenment.
Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life’s hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don’t; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
A scientist studies what is, whereas an engineer creates what never was.
Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‘Oryx and Crake’ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.
While our species converged with bonobos in our friendliness toward strangers, in humans, this friendliness extends only to some strangers. Love for our own groups enhances our fear and aggression toward strangers with a different identity.
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naive as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers’ wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate – it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.
Real leadership is treating your least favorite employee the same as your favorite
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.
Scientific men are too much given to explaining an unknown thing by another thing as little known, leaving the problems they deal with very much as they were.
To cultivate science only for its practical purpose is to despoil the soul of science.
I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.