science

"Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation."

"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."

"Magic's just science that we don't understand yet."

"Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal."

"Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity."

"One planet, one experiment."

"It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?"

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know"

"I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times."

"Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance."

"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."

"You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into."

"The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all."

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe."

"By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang."

"He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness."