science

"He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, ther…"

"Taxation is by definition legalized robbery. Clearly, it is initiated coercion. As such, no Objectivist can in good conscience support it. So, naturally, most of them don't. Ayn Rand, in her essay in …"

"Some blood transfusion from the East to the West is a must to save Western science from spiritual anaemia."

"Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence."

"When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality."

"In any case, raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women... The psychologist Erik Erikson discovered that, while little girls playing w…"

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."

"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy..."

"The monetary experiments of Pennsylvania and its neighbors were by no means an unconsidered reaction to circumstance. They were extensively debated and had the energetic support of Benjamin Franklin, …"

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius; selection between them is the highest science; their mass is the highest educator. Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in s…"

"I took this stuff I got out of your seal and I put it in ice water, and I discovered that when you put some pressure on it for a while and then undo it it doesn't stretch back. It stays the same dimen…"

"It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that, if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it couldn't work."

"This 'Hodge conjecture' has by now achieved a considerable status, almost on a par with the Riemann hypothesis or the Poincaré conjecture."

"From a long view of the history of mankind — seen from, say, ten thousand years from now — there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's dis…"

"Chance... the origin of the word itself is very possibly related to the falling of the dice from their box,—and certainly the first attempts at a theory of Chance arose from the general interest in ga…"

"Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture."

"Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all."

"The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence."

"... ; but conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ; and habit is our idea of eternity."