What is your FAVORITE SCIENTIFIC QUOTE?
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"When I hear about Schrodinger's cat, I reach for my gun." - Stephen Hawking
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie
"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth." - Jules Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth)0 -
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Hardwoods are more dense than pottery, and more easily sanitized. It doesn't lose any credibility at all. It's just that you don't believe that sinful actions have any bearing on health, and don't believe in atonement for said sins (unless you do believe, then I apologize, I don't want to assume). Taking tests and public speaking can cause diarrhea, and chronic stress and the inflammation it causes are linked to many diseases. I think that atonement allows the person the be free from guilt. Guilt causes stress, stress harms the body. Plus, many vices/sins cause poor health, such as alcoholism and the liver, sleeping around and STD's, etc. just because there isn't a medical term for it doesn't mean it isn't real. Many people, myself included, have been healed by God miraculously. That doctor's can't explain it doesn't mean it isn't true.
Antibacterial soap is now being blamed for the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.
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So, can you point out where Leviticus advises which woods to use for semen-bearing vessels? This is relevant to my interests.
We're getting way off topic here, but the truth is that I don't believe in sin or sinful actions, and I don't think there's anything which needs to be atoned but that which plagues our own personal morals (whether we get those personal morals from religion or true introspection). However, that's a topic for another day. This thread is about science quotes, and you don't seem to have anything to contribute...0 -
So I started this thread as a riff on the locked thread from earlier today, but y'all have delivered some awesome quotes! Thanks.0
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Hardwoods are more dense than pottery, and more easily sanitized. It doesn't lose any credibility at all. It's just that you don't believe that sinful actions have any bearing on health, and don't believe in atonement for said sins (unless you do believe, then I apologize, I don't want to assume). Taking tests and public speaking can cause diarrhea, and chronic stress and the inflammation it causes are linked to many diseases. I think that atonement allows the person the be free from guilt. Guilt causes stress, stress harms the body. Plus, many vices/sins cause poor health, such as alcoholism and the liver, sleeping around and STD's, etc. just because there isn't a medical term for it doesn't mean it isn't real. Many people, myself included, have been healed by God miraculously. That doctor's can't explain it doesn't mean it isn't true.
Antibacterial soap is now being blamed for the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.
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So, can you point out where Leviticus advises which woods to use for semen-bearing vessels? This is relevant to my interests.
We're getting way off topic here, but the truth is that I don't believe in sin or sinful actions, and I don't think there's anything which needs to be atoned but that which plagues our own personal morals (whether we get those personal morals from religion or true introspection). However, that's a topic for another day. This thread is about science quotes, and you don't seem to have anything to contribute...
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
MAX PLANCK
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLIS
How about juxtaposing these ideas:
Max Planck said "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter"
With this:
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:17
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.0 -
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness, and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened. -Charles Darwin.0
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
MAX PLANCK
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLIS
How about juxtaposing these ideas:
Max Planck said "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter"
With this:
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:17
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I like Planck, too. Particularly:
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
As far as his fascination with god, he's no different than Francis Collins. Both are brilliant men who made fantastic breakthroughs in their field and found spiritual meaning in them. However, it was their meaning and, just because they saw it, it doesn't mean their work actually supports those views. Both Planck's and Collins' scientific achievements tell us facts (amazing, glorious facts) about the universe, but anyone who sees religious or spiritual meaning in those facts does so for personal reasons. A fact is but a bit of truth with no inherent meaning of it's own.
Speaking of Planck, I also like:
"The belief in miracles must retreat step by step before relentlessly and reliably progressing science and we cannot doubt that sooner or later it must vanish completely."
I think it's kind of funny that you would use Planck to support a couple of Bible passages considering Planck was a deist and on record that he did not believe in any type of personal god, much less a Christian one. I'm also waiting patiently for the name of that semen resistant wood from Leviticus, whenever you get a chance. I have...needs.0 -
"Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us."- Neil Degrasse Tyson0
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The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. - Lawrence Krauss
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"Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense." - Michio Kaku0
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"Science adjusts it's beliefs based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
Tim Minchin from Storm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U 0 -
"Every one is a genius... but if you judge a fish on it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's entire life believing it is stupid" ~ E0
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Science is for guys that can't get dates.........time waster.
Noooooo! You're kidding right?! Lol
"Science is the poetry of reality."0 -
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
Steven Weinberg0 -
How about a song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk 0 -
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson0 -
Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause. ~Lee Strobel
Apologetics is not science. It's Christian anti-science claptrap. Please try to stay on topic.
Are you implying the universe has no beginning? And as far as staying on topic, I guess your input to favorite Biblical Quotes was about as on topic as this. Don't be a hypocrite.0 -
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"An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid."
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"The proof of this is obvious and left to the reader"
Pretty much every mathematician, as a way to signal holes in a proof.
Also, literally every proof in homological algebra.0 -
in...with nothing scientific to contribute..:happy:0
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Also, my first cause of migraine in high school :laugh:"The proof of this is obvious and left to the reader"
Pretty much every mathematician, as a way to signal holes in a proof.
Also, literally every proof in homological algebra.0 -
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.
— Mary McCarthy0 -
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson0 -
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
MAX PLANCK
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLIS
How about juxtaposing these ideas:
Max Planck said "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter"
With this:
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:17
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I like Planck, too. Particularly:
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
As far as his fascination with god, he's no different than Francis Collins. Both are brilliant men who made fantastic breakthroughs in their field and found spiritual meaning in them. However, it was their meaning and, just because they saw it, it doesn't mean their work actually supports those views. Both Planck's and Collins' scientific achievements tell us facts (amazing, glorious facts) about the universe, but anyone who sees religious or spiritual meaning in those facts does so for personal reasons. A fact is but a bit of truth with no inherent meaning of it's own.
Speaking of Planck, I also like:
"The belief in miracles must retreat step by step before relentlessly and reliably progressing science and we cannot doubt that sooner or later it must vanish completely."
I think it's kind of funny that you would use Planck to support a couple of Bible passages considering Planck was a deist and on record that he did not believe in any type of personal god, much less a Christian one. I'm also waiting patiently for the name of that semen resistant wood from Leviticus, whenever you get a chance. I have...needs.
Your post is sad. I feel kind of sorry for you. You take the base and refuse the glorious. It's like eating out of a trash can instead of sitting at the table to feast on world class cuisine. If only people really understood how much richer their lives would be, how much more joy and peace they'd experience if they really believed. I'm going to not comment further as I only engage in conversation that is mutually respectful.0 -
"The greatest threat to the world is global warming" -multiple sources
Not sure it counts as scientific but some think it does. Either way it's damn funny0 -
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. - Lawrence Krauss
That's a great one, and it always blows my mind!
I'm surprise that someone who pretends to be so intelligent supports so many unproven theories. What I'm not surprised at is how you treat people with different opinions. Condescending like you have some sort of superior wisdom. People believe what they want to hear. This applies to everyone. There are just as many scholars who support a creationism as those who don't. Now, go ahead, reply with your usually ways. Spew away in an effort to make me seem ignorant. I find it funny because one thing all your wisdom hasn't taught you is how to treat people who disagree with you.0 -
You view Christians as minions, but you may want to check the mirror. I would urge caution in where you follow. You would sure as hell hate to be wrong.0
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Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause. ~Lee Strobel
Apologetics is not science. It's Christian anti-science claptrap. Please try to stay on topic.
Are you implying the universe has no beginning? And as far as staying on topic, I guess your input to favorite Biblical Quotes was about as on topic as this. Don't be a hypocrite.
I've already addressed the "on topic" thing earlier in this thread. As far as the implying the universe has no beginning, it's not me making the implication. There have been several cyclic models of the universe over the years, the most recent involving M-Branes and increased expansion.0 -
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. - Lawrence Krauss
That's a great one, and it always blows my mind!
There are just as many scholars who support a creationism as those who don't.
This is absurdly untrue, but unsurprising considering your acceptance of apologetics as science. It's also a fallacious appeal to authority. I challenge you to actually look at how many scholars involved in relevant fields such as biology, cosmology, geology, etc believe in a creationist model (that's how you appeal to authority without it being a logical fallacy). There really aren't many, but if you choose to believe people like Strobel without actually looking into it, I can understand how you'd get that impression.
As far as the rest of your comment. I'm guessing that was irony? How many ways did you insult me (me personally, not my beliefs) before saying I don't know how to treat people with whom I disagree? If you have an opinion, be prepared for others to question and dismiss it if it's not backed up by evidence. That's not disrespect, that's discourse.0
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