#science

"A man of logic is a man of sin."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."(George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."

"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to."

"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"

"In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives."

"...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity,"one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution."

"I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!"

"Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."

"Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory.’ Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world."

"Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue."

"Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?"

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

"A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future."

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

"The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet"."

"Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it."

"Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective."

"It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living."

"Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved."

"The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies."