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Aug 17, 2022 · Too much of it kills you.”. – Terry Pratchett. “Science is simply the word to describe a method of organizing our curiosity.”. – Tim Minchin. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”. – Leonardo da Vinci. “Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not.
Jan 30, 2024 · They cannot imagine a scientist without this faith because, of course, they point out that you've got to believe in the rational intelligibility of the universe before you can do any science at all. Science doesn't give you that. It was belief in God that motivated the advance of science in the 16th. and 17th. centuries.
Darwin is not making a general comment on his evolutionary theories. He said this in the context of a discussion with Asa Gray about a very specific problem – how to account for the existence of species of plants for which there were no, or few, closely related species. Darwin had speculated that these disjoined species would be found to come ...
Mar 17, 2024 · I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell, March, 1912, as quoted in Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2012), p. 1318
Mar 21, 2016 · 1) “I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky!”. Lincoln’s desire to keep the key border state from joining the Confederacy was well known. Early texts cite a reverend saying something along these lines, but no quote can be sourced to Lincoln himself. 2) “America will never be destroyed from the outside.
Inspirational, Inspiring, Education. 121 Copy quote. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Nikola Tesla. Thinking, Insanity, Curiosity. 62 Copy quote. Show source.
Mar 29, 2014 · The actual line from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is ‘nor any drop to drink’. For more on Coleridge’s classic poem, see our post about Coleridge here. 9. Fresh fields and pastures new. A misquotation of a line from John Milton’s Lycidas (1637): ‘Tomorrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.’. 10.
