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When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to…
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Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling…
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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter…
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Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
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I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they…
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Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum…
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I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience…
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The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than…
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Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to…
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Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries…
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should…
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
— John Stuart Mill
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources…
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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have…
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The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The…
— Arthur Compton
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The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.
— Luther Burbank
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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
— Claude Bernard
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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The equations of dynamics completely express the laws of the historical method as applied to matter, but the application of these equations…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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