“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Science
Thomas A. Edison on Failure
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Continue reading
Robert Bakker on Taxes
“I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.” Continue reading
Pope John Paul II on Science and Faith
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” Continue reading
Neil Armstrong on Mystery
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” Continue reading
Frank Herbert on Science Fiction
“The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.” Continue reading
Douglas Adams on the Universe
“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” Continue reading
Peter Borden on Science
“Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.” Continue reading
Albert Einstein on Wisdom at Solving Problems
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Continue reading
Isaac Asimov on Computers
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.” Continue reading
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