Ifs Quote by Gaston Bachelard

Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used…

— Richard Dawkins

In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept…

— Gaston Bachelard

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious…

— Ansel Adams

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes…

— Richard Pascale

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of…

— Harry Shearer

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for…

— Albert Einstein

“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist principles. When…

— Julian Huxley

The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say…

— Hilary Kornblith

“Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how the mind…

— David Bohm

“To the point: A woman who wants to terminate her pregnancy has to make her decision in the context of a culture that shames…

— Willie Parker

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

— Anonymous