#science

"Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'"

"Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing."

"Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an."

"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."

"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

"So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?"

"Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth."

"To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction."

"To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies."

"I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it."

"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"

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

"To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself.-Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)"

"Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge."

"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else."

"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact."