All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernard Shaw
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. – Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. – Desmond Morris
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking…
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a…
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science…
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem…
It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, — a mere heart of stone. – Charles Darwin
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, — a mere heart of stone.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part…
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
Man’s conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature’s conquest of Man. – C.S…
Man’s conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature’s conquest of Man.
If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this…
If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents – the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts – i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy – are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.
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