Quotes of: Scientific-knowledge Keyword

The conflict between science and religion has a single and simple cause. It is the designation as religiously canonical of any conception of the material world open to scientific investigation....As a matter of fact, most of the dogmatic religions ha...

This View of Life: The World of an Evolutionist

In altre parole, uno degli scopi fondamentali delle emozioni è fornirci una scala di valori, in modo da poter scegliere che cosa è importante, costoso, bello o prezioso. In assenza di emozioni tutto ci sembrerebbe uguale, quindi ci ritroveremmo nel...

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in many places. But what has clearly been happening is that evolving before our eyes has been a God of...

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true. Emotions and feelings may well be nonverbal and universal, so that one could telepathically send...

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

The denier that ID [intelligent design] is science faces the following dilemma. Either he admits that the intervention of such a designer is possible, or he does not. If he does not, he must explain why that belief is more scientific than the belief ...

Thomas Nagel

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world dimi...

Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

Atreyu: I came here to find the Southern Oracle. Engywook: Oooh! Urgl: Here we go again. Engywook: You've come to the right place my boy. I am somewhat of an expert on the Southern Oracle. Urgl: [mimicking Engywook] It's my scientific specie-ality. E...

The NeverEnding Story

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

Manny Pacquiao

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

Peter Garrett

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Serge Lang

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

Ed Markey

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

Guy Laliberte

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

Johnny Hart

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

David Eagleman

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Muhammad Iqbal

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Gabriel Marcel

Don't talk too much, because your ignorance is greater than your knowledge.

Spanish

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Spanish

Of all the wars that have taken place wince then, none has endured so long as the conflict between knowledge and belief. For centuries now, knowledge has attempted, unsuccessfully, to supersede belief. But the entire clash stems from a misapprehensio...

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any wise man worth his salt as a wise man at least understands this. One may be able to comprehend all the human perspectives in the universe,...

Killosophy

Knowledge of self ought to be the great project of our lives. Knowing ourselves we will know others. Only by knowing ourselves can we begin to undo the madness we unleash on the world in our wars, our destruction of the environment, our divisions, ou...

A Time For New Dreams