Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“It’s not that children are little scientists — it’s that scientists are big children. Scientists actually are the few people who as… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that. — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“But old Rossum meant it literally. He wanted to become a sort of scientific substitute for God. He was a fearful materialist,… — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Had I a ropemaker to my father, and someone had cast it in my teeth, I would forthwith have written in praise… — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
“Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves.” — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless… — Raymond Priestley Copy Share Image
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I don't think America can just drill itself out of its current energy situation. We don't need to destroy the environment to… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
