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Humans have evolved levels of cooperation that are unprecedented among primate species. You can see it even in babies. Say you are playing with a baby and begin to put the toys in a box. If you point to one of the toys, the baby is likely to put it i...

The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

The formula I've figured out: Stop being so damn picky and let go of the mental image of an ideal; talk to more strangers, because it builds confidence and helps you feel more connected; be open to every opportunity, and when you do meet someone you ...

The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding L ove

Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup to kill Claudius. We are all told Claudius will die by drinking the cup. Then Claudius dies choking on a chicken bone at lunch. The...

Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth

After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they starte...

Villa Incognito

The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact would be fully substantiated if the integral history of Islamic science and civilization were to be written one da...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion mixes explosively with (and gives strong sanction to) ...

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

But the process should not be confused with science. When tests are used as selections devices, they're not a neutral tool; . For one thing, the tests tend to screen out - or repel - those who would upset the correlation. If a man can't get into the ...

The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation

For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The reason Science Fiction is so important is because SF authors create the future. They bring through ideas, tech...

Joseph Duda

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Chaos: Making a New Science

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

Chaos: Making a New Science

Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

Cosmos

il n'est ni sagesse, ni calcul, ni science de l'eau quand elle dissout les digues et engloutit les villes des hommes. (chapitre XV)

Citadelle

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science.

Esp, Hauntings And Poltergeists: A Parapsychologist's Handbook

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

Existence

Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH.

GWG

Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

Beyond The Human Condition

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

Brave New World Revisited

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Bad Science

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.

Martin Rees

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

Eric Kandel

In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the sc...

Kenneth R. Miller