QUOTES
“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced
the stunning and unexpected findings of science.”
Carl Sagan
“I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo Galilei
The First Clarke Law states, 'If an elderly but distinguished scientist says
that something is possible he is almost certainly right,
but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.'
“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Arthur Eddington
“The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight,
is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted
that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.”
H. L. Mencken
“Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more
accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.”
Heinz Pagels
“Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.”
Immanuel Kant
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
Jacob Bronowski
"Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men
because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe"
Albert Einstein