Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
Rudolf VirchowTags: science biology belief medicine pathology father-of-pathology
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.
Walter Houser BrattainTags: science biology importance chemistry nobel-laureate planet phenomena elements sunlight conversion surfaces electronics chemical-reactions circuits
Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments.
Alva NoëTags: science reason values consistency facts scientists bias interest plausibility coherence replication
I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.
Aubrey de GreyTags: science biology immortality aging cure-for-aging-live-indefinitely cure-to-aging
Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?
a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism?
or
b. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?
Of course my answer is b).
Tags: science knowledge determinism society philosophy nature physics ghosts brains neurology laws-of-physics illusion-of-free-will
Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings. Feelings of transcendence are simply that—feelings—and, as such, have no capacity to reveal truths about a world external to the people who have them.
Russell BlackfordTags: science truth doubt common-sense transcendence feeling implausible counterintuitive scientific-facts untutored-mind
This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds sweeping through it; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire, now hail and rain; what is it? Ay, what? At bottom we do not yet know; we can never know at all. It is not by our superior insight that we escape the difficulty; it is by our superior levity, our inattention, our want of insight. It is by not thinking that we cease to wonder at it. Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form, is a wrappage of traditions, hearsays, mere words. We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas CarlyleLife isn't just like roller-coasters but it's also like painting. Painting needs lots of focus and so does our life. If you mess with one thing in painting, it's no problem you can start from beginning. But, if you mess with life, you can't get the past back.
Jana KhairAllahTags: science
...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are a lost people.
Ray BradburyTags: science art lost religion faith freud darwin
I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.
Fred HoyleTags: science world war atheism atheist worry nuclear-war atomic-bomb nuke steady-state steady-state-theory
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