Encounter Quote by Parker J. Palmer

“People need each other. Our well-being is tightly tethered to the well-being of people we do not know, most of whom look nothing like…

— Paula Poundstone

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

— Martin Freeman

No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower…

— Parker J. Palmer

“His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life…

— Michael Finkel

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of…

— Paul A.M. Dirac

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

— Tony Snow

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the…

— Alan Kay

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

Data science requires having that cultural space to experiment and work on things that might fail.

— Hilary Mason

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

— Robert A. Heinlein

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is…

— Roger Bacon