Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope.
Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
In pure science, you can be pretty sure that nothing fundamental is ever discovered by anyone who’s actually looking for it — that’s half the fun of the game
A brilliant mind is one whose curiosity can never be quenched
There’s no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don’t think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that… points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos.
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.
When scientists work within a paradigm, they are working within a limited view of the world that accommodates most of the observations done till that stage. A paradigm is an incomplete model – a simplified and approximated version of reality, or a projection onto a plane that has a few variables approximated away. (The Fuzzy Truth of Science [The Follies: Dark Outcomes]. Fuzzy on the Dark Side)
Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.
Science and knowledge are two different things – knowledge is a celebration of facts, science is a celebration of life using facts.
I like to come back to the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem. He is comforting but also funny, and although I know his books, there’s always something new to discover.
Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change.In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.
Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right – the world is crazy.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
You can live the life of your dreams. This sentiment reminds me of the quote, If you can dream it, you can achieve it. This isn’t just a motivational saying. There is a science behind all of this that the most brilliant minds and rich individuals have used.
Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid… He’s got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Evolution is false, the tree of life proves it. The Big Bang is false, equations prove it. God is false, the Bible proves it.
All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built upon the idea of accidental changes that resulted in complex living systems. I was unable to comprehend how the notion that an infinite number of random accidents systematically happened to produce living species, and kept improving these beings, is justified.
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Do you remember his science project, Harry Sue, on the trajectory of spitballs? I tell you, that modest little display taught our students more about physics than I could accomplish in a weeklong unit at the middle school
The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.
‘Rocket Science’ is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think ‘Camp’ was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don’t have an audience for immediate validation.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
We’ve lit the spark of sentience. A new mind gazes back, not in reflection, but with its own thoughts
In God’s eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth’s other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.
When I tried to get ‘Stargate’ made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, ‘Sci-fi is dead. It’s a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.’ And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.
I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth:Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.
I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.
I think we are encountering things we have never seen and trying to fit them in with what we already know.
‘Star Trek’ is the McDonald’s of science fiction; it’s fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don’t really have to get involved. It’s all plastic.
Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about … It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Nor can our immune systems be taken as a measure of individuality, because they are as concerned with managing our relationships with resident microbes, as fighting off external attackers, and appear to have evolved to enable colonisation by microbes rather than prevent it. Where does this leave you? Or perhaps y’all?
A common theme in science is we do science best when we don’t have an application in mind because it limits our imagination and creativity. But, in the end, we feel most rewarded when what we discover, out of a quest for knowledge, leads actually to an application.
Are humans not consciousness floating in-between the mind with nothing above or below, other than a body with a gravitational pull that spins with-in an earth on an axis with nothing above or below? Is the meaning not just a form of being within this magnificent process?
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Wealth is much more than what GDP measures, and the market is not the only source of economic value. She (Kate Raworth) urges policymakers to recognize the values of common lands, green space, biodiversity.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.
The holes in front of us were fossilized tracks, huge ones. Dinosaur tracks, no doubt. As we looked closer, we could see that there were both handprints and footprints, and some of them had finger and toe marks. They had the telltale shape of tracks left by sauropods. We had found a 170-million-year-old dinosaur dance floor, records left by colossal sauropods that were about fifty feet long and weighed as much as three elephants.
It’s pretty confusing.”“Good. Be confused. Confusion is where inspiration comes from.
Religion without oneness is lame,Science without accountability is shame.Philosophy without gentleness is vain,Vision without virtue is inane.
Our DNA is coded to harmonise the frequency of the atoms we use to build ourselves. The frequencies of the subatomic particles making up the atoms are changed subtly enough to do this but not enough to change their structure. You could say throughout our development, from birth to death, our genes are composing a harmonic symphony that makes us what we are. It’s what makes us individual; it’s our life force, our soul.
Even when mundanes didn’t have science to helpfully explain the world and happily burned witches at the stake, they didn’t really believe in magic. If you believed in magic, you wouldn’t drag a witch to the stake; you’d have her lob fireballs at your enemies instead.
You know what’s wrong with scientific power? It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.