I always suspend logic for emotion. If it feels real, or it feels like what I'm going for, we should abandon reality… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much… — Jean Fresnel Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
“If it is the case that we are merely slaves to the natural processes computing our advanced fight and flight responses, then… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“ Majestatis naturæ by ingenium (Genius equal to the majesty of nature.) [ Inscribed ordered by King Louis XV for the base… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Humans are a terrestrial species biased toward attributing the forces we see around us to familiar forces on land. But the more… — Julia Whitty Copy Share Image
We just, you know, we're just sort of doing it like Bewitched, because we just think that the character of Kenny is… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“...I believe there is a legitimate aim of transcendence that is more modest and perhaps more realistic. We may not be able… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Now, as when I made films that were too autobiographical, the problem is how to escape naturalism. If you tell a strictly… — Philippe Garrel Copy Share Image
“Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Naturalism, therefore, can never be anything more than a guiding prejudice, an established principle only in the sense that it must be… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“The general argument from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, is a powerful and cogent one.… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“As science advanced in the late nineteenth century, it increasingly excluded appeals to divine action or divine ideas as a way of… — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
“The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau… — A.A. Michelson Copy Share Image
“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
A real naturalistic approach, I would claim, should take the reality of mental representation as a natural fact. A lot can be… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“The blue sky, the brown soil beneath, the grass, the trees, the animals, the wind, and rain, and stars are never strange… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
“This beach I voyage on leads me through the earth's immortal consistencies. Each form I encounter obeys the principles of perfection and… — John Hay Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
![“Majestatis naturæ by ingenium (Genius equal to the majesty of nature.) [ Inscribed ordered by King Louis XV for the base of a statue of Buffon placed at Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris. ]” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/anonymous-1_france_majestatis-natur-by-ingenium-genius-equa_2797583.jpg)
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![“The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories and laws do not bring matter/energy into existence. The view that they nevertheless somehow have the capacity seems a rather desperate…” quote by John Lennox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71c/john-lennox-19396_alternatives_the-world-of-strict-naturalism-in-which_2446870.jpg)
![“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodos. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. [perpetual snow] that, here…” quote by Joseph Dalton Hooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/joseph-dalton-hooker-39139_biology_i-am-above-the-forest-region-amongst-gra_2769144.jpg)
