#scienc

He who is not generous(loving,benevolent),God is not generous(loving,benevolent) to him. ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #benevolent #culture #freedom #generous

Forget everything you ordinarily associate with religious study. Strip away all the reverence and the awe and the art and the philosophy of it. Treat the subject coldly. Imagine yourself to be a theologist, but a special kind of theologist, one who studies gods the way an entomologist studies insects. Take as your dataset the entirety of world mythology and treat it as a collection of field observations and statistics pertaining to a hypothetical species: the god. Proceed from there. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#theology #art

It is necessary to choose: if you wish to be an empiricist, you must abandon the hope of founding scientific knowledge on a solid and certain basis; if you wish to have a solidly established science, you must place it under the protection of the idea of Necessity and, in addition, recognize this idea as primordial, original, having no beginning and consequently no end - that is to say, you must endow it with the superiorities and qualities that men generally accord to the S ↗

— Lev Shestov

#empiricism #science #truth #men

Nell Armstrong was a demi-god, he succeded travelling to space, after numerous deaths. ↗

— Michael Author

#science #death

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#bookstores #history #literature #philosophy #reading

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#logical-thinking #science #nature

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #stupidity #nature

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#science

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

#progress #science #science

...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason. ↗

— Shawn Lawrence Otto

#science #unreason #relationship