The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific inquiry hitherto entered on.
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.
Science is not about what’s true. It’s about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by way of public evidence.
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.
We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.
Naturally, I do things my own way but I'm certainly influenced by my mother's way of doing things.
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
