Science fiction writers aren’t fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
Call it a wonder or a mystery and you have an excuse to never try understanding it – an excuse to not take responsibility for it. People knew about love no more than they knew about Science, but at least most did not jump into Science headstrong, with the hope that they would figure it out as they went, or that some mysterious inborn trait would take care of it.
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
Reflect on the end together, as we achieve the same goal as artificial intelligence, namely, eternity.
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It’s the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.
Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, ‘How come? Why? What’s this?’ They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it’s discovering the world around us.
It’s too bad that all our timelines are inherently self-destructive.
Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
More life on the bottom of the ocean than anywhere else. In the vents. The layers. The currents. Things down there betray all the categories.
As the manufacturing base at home hollows out, human talent withers. If scientists are beset by constant worry about landing the next short-term contract, the prospects for profound discovery will not be auspicious.
It was an oasis that hosted empires. Their spires sought to touch the firmament; and in days yet to come, they envisioned themselves sailing the heavens on great ships. Yet a history of wars milled the soil into lands of contention.They mastered the fabric of the universe and bent it to their whim. Their legacy remains here in the darkness, but not all of it.
New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age of science and technology.
I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future.
The word ‘revolution’ first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
I felt that chess… is a science in the form of a game… I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
Considering artificial intelligence can checkmate human intelligence, make AI an ally, not an enemy.
Always be a student and keep learning, don’t think you know too much and be humble.
You can finish reading the letters in the Bible, but, we can’t stop getting inspirations from it at different times.
Science, as a lived human activity, has always travelled within a highly constrained set of languages.
Modernist discourse […] incorporates semantic devices – such as the labeling of theism as ‘religion’ and naturalism as ‘science’ – that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.
The practice of observing the living world and taking inspirations for human ways of living from its model is an essential element of indigenous science. It embraces the reality that there are intelligences other than our own, from whom we might learn.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
They were all enamoured with the idea of progress and believed that whatever was new must be superior to what was old. As if merit was a function of chronology!
It’s true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend.
The Ottoman Empire was an intricate mosaic of cultures and traditions, fostering an environment where diversity thrived.
Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminiscing about prior positive events.
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
I’ll bite: Hard science TA’s and RA’s often repair equipment; it’s part of our science. If you want a silver spoon, don’t go to grad school. Science is all about dangerous chemicals, semi-safe experimental equipment, and 4am drives down gravel roads in old vans with a nice steep drop on one side. Guardrail? Ho ho ho. Fixing the computers is just the tip of the iceberg. Plus, where else could you get on-the-job experience with a PDP-8?
The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.
For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Science adjusts its views based on what’s observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
One day, scientists will overtake LIGHT and crash into the DARKNESS.
I don’t mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way–characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don’t fit, the whole works–is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can’t often apply science to literature.
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn’t the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
We only get involved again when everything reaches a melting point.
I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.
I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that’s not science, that’s just a formula.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
I am not against AI substituting humans in jobs. Evolution has priority and humans always learn to compromise with it.
My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.