#science

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. ↗

— James Gleick

#randomness #science #science

This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this was impossible if you thought that these myths should be understood literally. Hence the furor occasioned by The Origin of Species, published by Charles Darwin. The book was not intended as an attack on religion, but was a sober exploration of a scientific hypothesis. But because by this time people were reading the cosmogonies of Genesis as though they were factual, many Christians felt--and still feel--that the whole edifice of faith was in jeopardy. Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#evolution #religion #science #age

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would. ↗

— Robert Aickman

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TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#tradition #science

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. ↗

— Charles Wheelan

#economics #free-market #markets #science

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science. ↗

— Mark Warner

#global-warming #politics #science #values #science

There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

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Science explained people, but could not understand them. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#science #science

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#philosophy #religion #science #death