The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.
Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.
The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting truth, but to set a limit on everlasting error.
Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.
There is a saying about surgeons, meant as a reproof: "Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." But this seemed to me their strength. Each day surgeons are faced with uncertainties. Information is inadequate; the science is ambiguous; one's knowledge and ab...
Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived a few centuries ago in a state worse than ignorance. Some sort of learned jargon much more despicable than ignorance had usurped ...
While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful...
Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching...
It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only theology is equipped to answer why questions. What on Earth is a why question? Not every English sentence beginning with...
Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to attain: deny those good things, withdraw from the...
