Hubris Quote by Douglas Preston Download Open image “Hubris and science are incompatible.” — Douglas Preston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hubris Science
It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science. — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense. — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The real conflict over cosmology is not between religion and science-- it's between religion and materialism, between those who think that religious truth is… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
“There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
“The Tyrannosaurus rex was a creature of the jungle. She lived in the deepest forests and swamps of North America, not long after it… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“William Duncan Strong was a scholar, a man ahead of his time: quiet, careful and meticulous in his work, averse to spectacle and publicity.… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Global warming has opened the southern door of the United States not just to leish but to many other diseases. The big ones now… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Boxer altered his course subtly, as if that was the way he'd already been going, not looking up to acknowledge he had heard, letting… — douglas preston Copy Share Image
“A strange, pale figure emerged—Pendergast?—and she felt herself suddenly in his arms, lifted bodily as if she were a child again, her head cradled… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“When the team excavated, they uncovered the shattered ruins of a fortress, over fifteen centuries old, with massive walls and eight towers, matching the… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows. — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“What the hell was your pal Bertin demanding?” he asked. “Sipping syrup?” “It’s a cocktail he prefers when he gets, ah, overly excited.” “A… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails… — Plato Copy Share Image
It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to say about… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
