Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
What a marvelous cooperative arrangement – plants and animals each inhaling each other’s exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.
Science had to have some mystery otherwise everyone would find out how simple it was.
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man – social and political – and to the entire universe as a whole.
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
All this plastic is getting in the way of our animal duty. Which is, we’ve got to eat each other over and over to keep this carousel turning round.
Rarely do issues have “two sides” of equal scientific merit that deserve equal representation. Credentials alone mean little. Those representing themselves as scientists or physicians may well have doctorates, but they may also be speaking well outside their areas of expertise. The story of the little guy going up against an evil corporation may make for a compelling (and well-worn) narrative, but often the little guy is working with bad science.
I don’t think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn’t have exclusionary rules, we wouldn’t have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn’t have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There’s an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.
PLANTS ARE LIKE ANIMALSOnly about five processes are fundamental to life, no matter the kingdom. These processes are growth, feeding, defense, reproduction, and dispersal. Everything else is gravy
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
God is not absolute, and Nothingness is not absolute. If we come from these positions (postulates), we confront the inability of language to be precise. This inability reveals that the problem of understanding different phenomena is not so much in the phenomena themselves but in our failure to understand or present them linguistically in the best and most precise manner.
I loved you before all of this. When there was nothing. When there was only a single atom in the night sky.
Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical capricious illogical and unexplainable. Science cannot prove the existence of faeries so naturally we do not exist. That type of nonbelief is fatal to faries.
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
The survival of a species often depends on the aid of multiple other creatures.
In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.
I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore.The two are rarely compatible.
I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.
Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t an answer to them. It’s just that scientists haven’t found the answer yet.
For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor’s basement.
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we’re tackling these mysteries one by one. If you’re going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
The more intriguing question is not why we are here, but rather where we are going.In just three generations, we’ve transitioned from steam power to artificial intelligence.Wherever we’re headed, it seems we’re in a hurry to get there.
[When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996:]If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.
They have to say SOMETHING. Maria Bartiromo can’t exactly look into the camera and say that the Dow is down half a percent today because of random Brownian motion.
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!
If traditional myths of origin raise more questions than they answer, we should not be surprised that a scientific myth of origin should do the same. Science is nothing if not the continuous asking of new questions.
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? […] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist.
There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.
It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man’s own pointless existence. (p. 4)
Progress is made by young scientists who carry out experiments that old scientists say would not work.
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
We have been warned frequently about the dangers of science without ethics, but history without ethics poses a similar threat. Too often are events suffered in the past remembered only to justify evils done in the present.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Mi mayor deseo para la humanidad no es la paz ni la comodidad ni la alegría. Es que todavía sigamos muriendo un poco por dentro cada vez que seamos testigos de la muerte de otro. Porque sólo el dolor de la empatía evita que perdamos la humanidad. De lo contrario, no hay ninguna versión de Dios que pueda ayudarnos.
Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages…
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.
And if the world does not in all respects correspond to our wishes, is this the fault of science, or of those who would impose their wishes on the world?
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I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’
In the discovery of secret things, and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators.
Let’s face obstacles as steps towards a brighter societal vision, for in every challenge lies an opportunity for progress.
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science.To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom.
The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.
Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.
Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.