I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
Bill GatesTags: science understanding richard-dawkins creation-myths dawkins false-explanations
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
Ben GoldacreTags: science faith argument persuasion
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.
Janna LevinA society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
Albert EinsteinTags: science
One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
Kay Redfield JamisonTags: science epistemology
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...
Bill GatesTags: science why belief scientific agnosticism
To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
Stuart SutherlandTags: science philosophy
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.
Carl SaganTags: science knowledge technology
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
Carl SaganI went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously...you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute...HA! I looked hot as a chick!
Gerard WayTags: science frank drag hot train my-chemical-romance chick chicks iero
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