science

"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable."

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions."

"I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship."

"A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil."

"Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity."

"All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either."

"If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are deluded to the point of perversity. They are denying not only the facts of biology but those of physics, geology, cosmology, archaeology, history and chemistry as well."

"People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?"

"Only you can control your future."

"He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals"

"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter."

"In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels"

"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves."

"Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)"

"Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep."

"Tugas peneliti adalah mengungkap rahasia dengan metode"

"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."