#scienc

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. ↗

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

#atheism #atheist #biology #cosmology #guessing

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#before #chew #fiction #funky #ideas

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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