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I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to the civilization under the protection of the rules of capitalism, laws of science and rights of universal suffrage.
Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to his head.
Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.
The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.
Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
You must rely on reason and science,” she said, “and be guided by a likewise rational ethic of human concern. You must do your utmost as individuals to improve your understanding, ability and compassion.
Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.
But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
