#science

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

"From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance"

"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."

"The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know."

"We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language."

"And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude."

"In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth."

"So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?"

"Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God."

"One planet, one experiment."

"A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points."

"IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them."

"Art is I; science is we."

"Mencari, itulah titah ilmu pada pengabdinya."

"[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd."

"The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky."

"The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible."

"It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths."

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."

"Wind is renewable. Turbines are not."