Newton said, ‘If I have seen further than others, it is because I’ve stood on the shoulders of giants.’ These days we stand on each other’s feet!
Jurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They’re being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial.
It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
So many other planets & stars — could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?
When air becomes breath,and cells become sentient,Words become poetry,and facts become science.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Forgetting happens. If you stress about it, it’ll happen even more.
It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.
If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one’s equation, … one is on a sure line of progress.
You are responsible for your emotions. Your emotions represent the chemical gateway for spiritual transformation.
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out.
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don’t understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn’t equal mc2, it doesn’t, it doesn’t! I was lying, so there!
There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn’t seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as junk DNA, though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome junk, given our level of ignorance.
We have reduced carbon to an errant element, the culprit in a civilization bent on self-termination…Carbon is a window into the entirety of life, with all its beauty, secrets, and complexity.
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery…
Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students ‘the full range of scientific views’ about Darwinian evolution.
Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. … This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.
And, that’s what I truly believe that we’re doing when we’re advancing scientific knowledge is we’re someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth … but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
Atomism is the belief that the world can be understood by studying its most minuscule particles, cells or atoms.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.
Nothing is as engaged as a retentive human brain as uncounted events is inhibited in it
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.
All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.
The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.
… informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.
The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
Everything, however complicated – breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests – is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn’t offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
To catch a wild animal, you have to use the right bait.What happens to the bait? I haven’t decided yet.
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists