It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it seemed to me, as I listened to the gravity and seriousness wherewith Science affirmed its positions on matters unconnected with the problem of life, that I must have misunderstood something. For a long time I was timid in the presence in learning, and I fancied that the insufficiency of the answers which I received was not its fault, but was owing to my own gross ignorance, but this thing was not a joke or a pastime with me, but the business of my life, and I was at last forced, willy-nilly, to the conclusion that these questions of mine were the only legitimate questions underlying all knowledge, and that it was not I that was in fault in putting them, but science in pretending to have an answer for them.
Leo TolstoyTag: science questions meaning-of-life
But even if I know what governs their trajectory, if I know the rules of the movement of things and how things are organized and how certain mutations, transformations, gestations take place, even if I know all that, I shall only have learnt how to get along after a fashion in the enormous gaol, the oppressive prison in which I am held. What a farce, what a snare, what a booby-trap. We were born cheated. For if we are not to know, if there is nothing to know, why do we have this longing to know?
Eugène IonescoTag: science futility human-condition knowing prisons
Life is like a dry handjob. Just when it starts getting good, it’s already over.
Jayme K.Tag: humor science inspirational sex
An especially powerful type of historical evidence [for the Bible and Christianity] is that of fulfilled prophecy - historical events written down long before they actually happen. Hundreds of prophecies in the Bible have been remarkably fulfilled exactly as fortold but often hundreds of years later. This type of evidence is unique to the Bible and can be explained only by divine inspiration. God, the Creator of time, is outside of time. He is the One who controls the future and, therefore, is the only One who knows the future.
"Bible prophecies are not vague and rambling, such as those of Nostradamus and other supposed extrabiblical prophets. Prophecies in the Bible deal with specific places, people, and events, and their fulfillments can be checked by reference to subsequent history.
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
Spyridon MarinatosTag: science history language earth discovery culture archeology excavation archeologist earth-s-history
My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world.
J.B.S. HaldaneTag: science biology atheism atheist evolution devils scientist experiments intellectual-honesty atheistic methodological-naturalism justified-assumptions
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.
Raymond LoewyTag: science morality civilization culture inventor engineer astrophysics decaying-orbit
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. To be this ploughman, to see my labours result in the furtherance of scientific progress, was the height of my ambition, and now the Swedish Academy of Sciences has come, at this harvest, to add the most brilliant of crowns.
Paul SabatierTag: science ambition metaphor fallibility improvement scientist scientific-theory scientific-progress destructibility swedish-academy-of-sciences
I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.
David CronenbergLa tierra constituye sólo una pequeña fase en medio de la vasta arena cósmica. Pensemos en los ríos de sangre derramada por tantos generales y emperadores con el único fin de convertirse, tras alcanzar el triunfo y la gloria, en dueños momentáneos de una fracción del puntito. Pensemos en las interminables crueldades infligidas por los habitantes de un rincón de ese pixel a los moradores de algún otro rincón, en tantos malentendidos, en la avidez por matarse unos a otros, en el fervor de sus odios.
Nuestros posicionamientos, la importancia que nos auto atribuimos, nuestra errónea creencia de que ocupamos una posición privilegiada en el universo son puestos en tela de juicio por ese pequeño punto de pálida luz. Nuestro planeta no es más que una solitaria mota de polvo en la gran envoltura de la oscuridad cósmica. Y en nuestra oscuridad, en medio de esa inmensidad, no hay ningún indicio de que vaya a llegar ayuda de algún lugar capaz de salvarnos de nosotros mismos.
Tag: science religion astronomy
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