My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
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“The Real (Sat) is indestructible whereas the religions that are being followed in the world are all relative, they are destructible. Real… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Cognitive scientists recognize two types of rationality: instrumental and epistemic. The simplest definition of instrumental rationality-the one that emphasizes most that it… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It's the science and art of rapidly building out… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT… — Robert Sutton Harrington Copy Share Image
In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is not to work on things that other people are working on because otherwise all you'll do is… — David Jewitt Copy Share Image
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied;… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“And art has come to be a spectator of itself, the way it reacts, what newspapers write about it; the artist is… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
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Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Colours, sounds, words and actions are all imbued with specific emotions, subjectively for each experience. It's therefor a great sorrow that the… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
“It is also worth noting that the earth gravitational field though locally ‘vertical’ is globally radial as the centrifugal field in the… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
“All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No… — Joe Nickell Copy Share Image
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
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