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
A blanket could be used to suppress yawns. Just curl up in the technological wonder that is a blanket, lay your head back, and let the miracle of science cure your yawns.
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.
science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly im...
