I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
It is wrong to make statements in the name of science to presuppose the truth instead of accurately representing it.
The richest 1 per cent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity.
God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing.
Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don’t know it at the time.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.
I had written about the blandness, the whiteness…The people angry over teaching evolution in the schools, who called the whole idea from goo to you, via the zoo.
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.
The freshwater fish crisis is a manifestation of the complex interplay between climate change and a myriad of human-induced threats. Recognising the interconnectedness of these challenges is the first step towards crafting effective solutions.
I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe.You poked it with a stick?No! I said. Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.” It took you two days to think of poking it with a stick.You… be quiet.
Intellectual jargon is usually just a means of mystifying very simple concepts so that only a privileged few can take part in the discourse.
We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval ur-matter, atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.
I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine included, needs Darwinism at all. Darwinism is certainly needed, however, in order to pose as a philosopher, since it is primarily a worldview. And an awful one, as George Bernard Shaw used to say.
Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.
Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.
…It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
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Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Experienced researchers loop back and forth, move forward a step or two before going back in order to move ahead again, change directions, all the while anticipating stages not yet begun.
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
On the basis of this power, a promise of liberation, enrichment, and of conquering the scourges of humanity is issued. The promise leads to the irony of technology when liberation by way of disburdenment yields to disengagement, enrichment by way of diversion is overtaken by distraction, and conquest makes way first to domination and then to loneliness.
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.
He wrested the world’s whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.
In the water, as any fish will tell you, we can’t see everything. For seeing alone isn’t enough.
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100.
If you’ve got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn’t prove it.
Dire .. que l’homme est constitué de certains éléments chimiques est une description ne convenant qu’à ceux dont l’intention est de l’utiliser comme engrais.
Al-Qur’an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S
The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.
The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The quantity of 200-proof alcohol in this single interstellar cloud was more than enough to maintain the present population of the Earth, if every adult were a dedicated alcoholic, for the age of the solar system. The tamada had appreciated the remark.
Religion is where you follow everything. Science is where you challenge everything.
…but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.
A single molecule can set the path for a million possibilities.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities.
Scientists dealt with this paradox in the handiest possible way. They ignored it.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.
Interviewer: Didn’t Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn’t want to believe. he wanted to know.
The primordial state of the Absolute is immaterial, spaceless, and timeless.
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St. Petersburgh, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime. When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like ‘living’ does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.
I’m a scientist. It’s not about sides or parties; I’m with whoever has the best data.
Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance – anything creative – that’s put on math and science.
Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.