Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others, but he had… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“there is a growing body of work coming out of psychology and cognitive science that says you have no clue why you… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“In one study, researchers used an iPhone app to check in on people at random points throughout the day and found that… — Sophia Dembling Copy Share Image
“Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the… — Steve Benson Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Answers are shooting stars in a nebulous firmament. Every burst of outspoken enlightenment fails to betray the vast timeless riddles of their… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism,… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around.… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly,… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since… — Alan H. Linton Copy Share Image
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Firstly, it meant that the issue between competing paradigms could not be resolved by simply appealing to ‘the data’ or ‘the facts’,… — Samir Okasha Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“But I—forgive me. I have to know." Nicholas swallowed hard. It was humiliating. But he was a scientist, trained to observe and… — T. Baggins Copy Share Image
“Health is normal. The human body is a self-repairing, self-defending, self-healing marvel. Disease is relatively difficult to induce, considering the body's powerful… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — William R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Physicians from all over the world came not only to work for the Institute and to attend lectures there, but also to… — Charlotte Wolff, M.D Copy Share Image
“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
