What is your FAVORITE SCIENTIFIC QUOTE?
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"I love f^%&*ing science." - people I un-friend0
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I guess that's why the gentleman put it in big letters, because the thread is supposed to be about SCIENCE!!!!!
I effing love science. I love empirical evidence. It makes me happy.0 -
I guess that's why the gentleman put it in big letters, because the thread is supposed to be about SCIENCE!!!!!
I effing love science. I love empirical evidence. It makes me happy.
It was actually a play off of a scriptural thread from yesterday that someone else started. It...didn't go well.0 -
I guess that's why the gentleman put it in big letters, because the thread is supposed to be about SCIENCE!!!!!
I effing love science. I love empirical evidence. It makes me happy.
Then I like you a lot, because I love empirical evidence and science! woooooooo!0 -
'"What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong?" she asked. "I mean, what if -- uh -- when the time comes, you should meet Him? What will you say?" Russell was delighted with the question. His bright, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contemplated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, "Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.'"
~ Bertrand Russell0 -
Stand back! Im going to try science!
I feel sad for you. Because one of my good friends was raised evangelical. He believed with his whole heart, he prayed and he was the least sinful person in the world. Until he realized he was gay.
Then his family disowned him (very christian of them) and left him to the wolves of the world.
So I feel sad for all the kids who grow up thinking they need to be perfect and that by there very nature they are sinful.
My life would NOT be richer if I believed in a man in the sky. My life would be siginficantly more tragic.
\now back to regular programing.
And no one can honestly come back on this one. Good comeback.
We all have at least one great friend who is gay and "religion," something that is supposed to tout love of mankind and doing good deeds shuns man and woman for something that is personal. I'll go one step further....the crazies that try to get into heterosexual bedrooms and tell them they can't have oral/anal, etc.
Yeah, if you ask me to choose between religion and a bullet, I'll take the bullet TYVM. Just saying.
Now, belief in something bigger than me, well, it's ambiguous and has no shape and I call it the universe. it works for me.0 -
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Then I like you a lot, because I love empirical evidence and science! woooooooo!
Woo hoo. BTW, I need to look up this Richard Dawkins.0 -
Stand back! Im going to try science!
I feel sad for you. Because one of my good friends was raised evangelical. He believed with his whole heart, he prayed and he was the least sinful person in the world. Until he realized he was gay.
Then his family disowned him (very christian of them) and left him to the wolves of the world.
So I feel sad for all the kids who grow up thinking they need to be perfect and that by there very nature they are sinful.
My life would NOT be richer if I believed in a man in the sky. My life would be siginficantly more tragic.
\now back to regular programing.
As a person whose family is currently going through a mild episode of religiously motivated intolerance, I'm sorry for your friend's experience. It is so much like that of a lot of people I know, and not just because of homosexuality. I find it painfully ironic that when one speaks out against this deplorable treatment, one is considered to be intolerant of fundamental Christianity (or Judaism or Islam). As if tolerance of intolerance is something to be desired!0 -
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Woo hoo. BTW, I need to look up this Richard Dawkins.
You don't know Dawkins? Oh, sister! You're in for a treat!0 -
You don't know Dawkins? Oh, sister! You're in for a treat!
SERIOUSLY, YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS MAN. I LOVE his book "God Delusion.' He is brilliant.0 -
'"What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong?" she asked. "I mean, what if -- uh -- when the time comes, you should meet Him? What will you say?" Russell was delighted with the question. His bright, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contemplated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, "Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.'"
~ Bertrand Russell
This is awesome! Where did you source it?0 -
SERIOUSLY, YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS MAN. I LOVE his book "God Delusion.' He is brilliant.
I have a Fresh Air CD set on belief and there's a segment where Terry Gross interviews him. Pure gold.0 -
"The secrets of evolution are time and death." --Carl Sagan
May not sound inspirational, but it really helped me wrap my brain around evolution.
Also, Monty Python's Galaxy Song is my absolute favorite and never fails to cheer me up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk 0 -
"I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' The twenty-five percent is for error." - Linus Pauling0
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Dara O' Briain (Irish comedian)
"Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you."
and, not really a science quote, but another corker from him;
"I'm sorry, 'herbal medicine', "Oh, herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri, so knock yourselves out."0 -
Oh **** what have I done!0
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God does not play dice...Einstein
Reproduction of the Fittest...Darwin
where reproduction is defined as boinking and fitness is defined as the number of F3's or grandchildren that live long enough to reproduce, thus not having any social darwinism at all. Yeah.
It's not that I am smarter, it is that I stay with problems longer ...Einstein
Rosalind Franklin — 'Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.'- the real discoverer of the DNA Helix
Poster is an exscience teacher now child wrangler. :huh:0 -
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." -Alan Turing.0
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God does not play dice...Einstein
Reproduction of the Fittest...Darwin
where reproduction is defined as boinking and fitness is defined as the number of F3's or grandchildren that live long enough to reproduce, thus not having any social darwinism at all. Yeah.
It's not that I am smarter, it is that I stay with problems longer ...Einstein
Rosalind Franklin — 'Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.'- the real discoverer of the DNA Helix
Poster is an exscience teacher now child wrangler. :huh:
Rosalind Franklin got the shaft...hard. My buddy named his daughter after her.0 -
This is awesome! Where did you source it?
[Al Seckel, in Preface to Bertrand Russell on God and Religion]0 -
The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.
Seth MacFarlane0 -
Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.
Seth MacFarlane0 -
Bill's expression here:
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4 out of 3 people have problems with fractions.0
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"There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance." – Neil deGrasse Tyson0
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Dr. William Gray, Colorado State University
John Christy, Climatologist
Check out their research and views. No grant money there. No Fakegate agendas.
Interesting. I would have thought their affiliations with notable anti-AGW groups like Heartland, Cato, CEI, Independent, and Tech Central Station would have brought them at least some compensation for their time and efforts.0 -
It was actually a play off of a scriptural thread from yesterday that someone else started. It...didn't go well.
Are you kidding? I thought it went great! Especially because I was one of the the last to comment with a piece of Wiccan "scripture" before a mod closed the thread. :bigsmile:0 -
“To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries”
-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion0
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