We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.
Now the “earth turns over” just as Immanuel Velikovsky predicted. A horrific 90-degrees tilt of the earth in which the weight of ice packs inGreenland and Antarctica precipitates the 12,000-year cyclical catastropheforetold by so many from humanity’s past. T. S. Eliot stands avenged; the worldas we know it goes out with a whimper.
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.
Now I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult–at least I have found it so–than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.
If you can’t appreciate science and religion at the same time, your life must be scary.
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.
In God we trust. All others [must] have data. – Bernard Fisher
Nothing can invade our being without our permission. It is energetically impossible. We can be confident in our eternal being of infinite abilities of every kind, limited only by our imagination, emotional spectrum and personal beliefs and perspectives. These are all things that can be resolved, as our conscious awareness greatly expands in understanding and can create experiences in the spectrum of beauty, joy and love.
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you’d better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.
A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same
Belief in a divine being who starts the universe off and then “sits back” to watch events unfold, taking no direct part in subsequent affairs, is known as “deism.” Here God’s nature is captured by the image of the perfect watchmaker, a sort of cosmic engineer, who designs and constructs a vast and elaborate mechanism and then sets it going.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don’t expect.
Eat always much fiber each morning. According to ancient Roman army was proven that regularly eating of fiber leads to building stamina and to vitality. So that´s why Roman army was always in the best condition at fight with enemy.
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Your brain is struggling between what you have learned your whole life, and what your eyes have seen. I can’t fully explain it, but it’s real.
Humans are subtracting animals and adding themselves; beings that wear fur or bark are cut down by those in cotton.
The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.{Cuvier on Joseph Banks}
It’s not about anthenes, cables, routers.. it is about to turn satellites obsolate.
So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, switching to Yoda power probably isn’t worth the trouble — though it would definitely be green.
Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true.
Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we’ve come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.
Whatever has a beginning is not eternal. What is not eternal must have come from somewhere. The worst thing is to try to prove something, counting on the idea that it came from nothing. It is also as unscientific as it can get. No chaos theory can prove this reasoning, and no butterfly effect can prove it because nothing is only nothing and cannot be anything else except nothing. Nothingness cannot move the Nothing or create from nothing.
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
My potential salvation…must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with aha — while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over.
Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.
…if you use a standard called biological value to rate protein sources… soy finishes far below eggs, milk, fish, beef and chicken. The food with the highest biological value ever measured is whey protein…
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it’s all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That’s consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you’ll still be wrong, but you’ll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.
It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid – if we’re talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality.
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
What makes you think I want to “inspire confidence”? I am not a faith healer, or a politician. The Antigerone exists. It doesn’t depend on confidence for its results, any more than castor oil does. Whether people “believe in it”, as the phrase goes, or don’t “believe in it”, will not have the least effect on its properties. . . .
It is not just a world where the few have so much and the many have so little. It is a world where the earth, the natural environment, is being destroyed as collateral damage.
Magic is science. It’s simply a fancier term for showing people the impossible is attainable.
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.
Safe and effective” should not just be a slogan to promote vaccines. These words should represent truth after scientific proof has been established beyond doubt.
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.Build an eye.
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.
My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
If it were not so, if we were organisms so sensitive that a single atom, or even a few atoms, could make a perceptible impression on our senses – Heavens, what would life be like!
Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.
Millions of years ago, bacteria and animals struck up a deal. In return for a moist bed and a warm buffet, beneficial bacteria took up the job of defending us against the madly proliferating pathogens in the world. It takes a germ to fight a germ.
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
If the brain was simple enough to be understood – we would be too simple to understand it!
Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other.