Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition…. we have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.
We mustn’t go back to living in caves by compromising all rationality, but at the same time, we mustn’t practice rationality to such an extreme that we kill the very warmth of the human spirit.
Curiosity – the rover and the concept – is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.
Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.
It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil – which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
I’m a science guy. I’m a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe I’d be a professional guide, or maybe even a park ranger, working for the Department of Fish and Game.
Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
Metal makes everything magical. Just ask a unicorn. . .preferably one with a metal horn.
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline… We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.
But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.
Kudzu is no more a harbinger of devastation, a damning curse that befell the land, than I am.
I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?
I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.
Anxiety is a powerful gift from almighty God. It is our fear of anxiety that destroys us.
In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is concern for content.
He had helped to create a weapon so deadly that not even its extreme beauty could justify its use.
The true fruit of this century has little interest in coming to living-terms with innovations; it just greedily grabs them all as they come along. Only when it encounters something really big does it become aware of a social problem at all, and then, rather than make concessions, it yammers for the impossibly easy way out, uninvention, suppression
It’s so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it’s like, religion, you really can’t take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary…but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn’t believe in anything anymore if it weren’t for my lucky astrology mood watch.
All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.
The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.
I’m saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won’t let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth.
Only the slow operation of time is able to sift the essential from the merely incidental, and to point out the track which leads to further knowledge.
…they had only to suffer religious dogmatism, which was not so dogmatic as scientific dogmatism.
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.
The whole idea of a democratic application of skepticism is that everyone should have the essential tools to effectively and constructively evaluate claims to knowledge.
Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.
Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.
I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.
Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it’s emotional. It’s not rocket science.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Tidak ada kesalah-pahaman mengenai ilmuwan yang lebih besar daripada kepercayaan yang berkembang bahwa mereka adalah individu-individu yang dingin, keras, dan tak berjiwa.
Some people with Tourette’s have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects….. (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)
Biochemistry is the language of life spoken in the smallest of parts yet felt in the grandest of forms.
I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it’s not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It’s tempting to hide in small rooms built from quick answers. I have done my best to hold back. page 14
Until you go out to preach, or to witness, you won’t get enough spiritual strength. You can’t dwell in Zion and remain stationary
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.
We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge – all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.
Clark’s Nutcrackers remember where they buried thousands of pine nuts in up to ten thousand caches within a fifteen-mile range.
I watched how people of India changed from social people to self diverted people, they are now started to be in their self.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.
There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
The more people we can attract to science and technology – men, women, everybody – the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.
Included in the GSM standard for mobile devices was the ability to use the mobile network’s control channel (the parhway that controls the call but doesn’t carry the call itself) to send short alphanumeric messages. It was envisioned principally as a means for one-way communication from the company to the subscriber (such as your bill is due). That changed when the functionality was discovered by Norwegian teenagers in the late 1980s.
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.