science

"The decision by the seven-man majority in Roe v. Wade has so far been made to stick. But the Court's decision has by no means settled the debate. Instead, Roe v. Wade has become a continuing prod to t…"

"To discover something in mathematics is to overcome an inhibition and a tradition. You cannot move forward if you are not subversive."

"One does not leave gold untouched, when one discovers the yellow metal in filth. One is ver ready to pick it up. What is intrinsically good will never change no matter where it is found. A diamond is …"

"An enduring embarrassment of democratic theory is that it seems impotent when faced with questions about its own scope."

"Wonderful theory, wrong species."

"The very survival of our human species needs the creative collaboration between science and religion."

"Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimens…"

"Of course there will always be uncertainties within climate science and the need for research to continue. But some sections of the press are giving an uncritical campaigning platform to individuals a…"

"Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?"

"Mr. Darwin begs me to say that he receives so many letters that he cannot answer them all. He considers that the theory of evolution is quite compatible with the belief in a God; but that you must rem…"

"Sam Treiman... has quoted something he called Treiman's theorem... Impossible things usually don't happen. ...With the discovery of radioactivity... it suddenly became apparent that the "impossible" w…"

"It was mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence, wherein the mind appears to play only with itself, that turned out to be the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of natu…"

"When you get to the bottom, you discover that there is no room for pride. That’s what I paint."

"The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine."

"Pedantry iz the science ov investing what little yu know in one kind ov perfumery, and insisting upon sticking that under every man's knose whom you meet."

"As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue."

"Response to Ken Wilber's, "Integral Theory of Consciousness" by Garry Jacobs. Criticises Wilber's position from an Aurobindonian perspective."

"According to the big bang theory the universe is only 13 billion years old... We made some observations a year ago which we are still trying to explain but the simplest explanation seems to be that th…"

"No science is more worthy of cultivation and encouragement than that which, calculating time by the aid of Astronomy, adjusts the results of observations thus obtained to the ordinary use and instruct…"

"Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting."