Science quotes

[Further]

Kudos to the people in this thread who didn't feel the need to go and be dicks in the scripture thread...

That's why I started this thread, so we didn't have to pile on in that thread.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons.[4] The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

 

[BlazerWookee]

 

[Denny Crane]

 

[magnifier661]

“I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.”

― Albert Hofmann

“I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.”

― Albert Hofmann

This is my favorite!

“By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.”

― Albert Hofmann

 

[crandc]

Speeds, don't know why but I can't see any of your stuff.

 

[crowTrobot]

This is my favorite!

“By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.”

― Albert Hofmann

not a science quote

 

[magnifier661]

not a science quote

Bull shit it isn't.

 

[crowTrobot]

Bull shit it isn't.

there might be the intent of some sort of empirical hypothesis hidden in all the new age mumbo jumbo, but I doubt it. guy took too much of what he was experimenting with.

 

[speeds]

Speeds, don't know why but I can't see any of your stuff.

Dunno why that might be. Do you have images turned off for this website? Are you using a mobile browser? Could it be that you have html turned off for this site?

 

[BlazerWookee]

You didn't like the Darwin quote?

He's a scientist.

Not anymore, he isn't...

 

[magnifier661]

Dunno why that might be. Do you have images turned off for this website? Are you using a mobile browser?

Just in case she didn't see you

 

[speeds]

Lawrence Krauss has a similar take on it:

I found a more complete quote.

 

[speeds]

Just in case she didn't see you

Oh you mean maybe she has me on ignore? I didn't think of that.

 

[Further]

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[crandc]

Speeds, don't have you on ignore and I am seeing everone else's images. I'll check another computer.

 

[noknobs]

Wish I'd read that truth yesterday!

Along the same lines:

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion." - Arnold H. Glasow

 

[bluefrog]

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur

 

[BlazerWookee]

"Ouch! Fucking apples..." - Sir Isaac Newton

"Dammit! Somebody give me a towel!" - Archimedes

"Holy shit, did you see that?" - Benjamin Franklin

 

[e_blazer]

"Engage." - Captain Picard

 

[BlazerWookee]

 

[MadeFromDust]

Newton was a biblical creationist and a follower of Christ. And what "story" is being told? The point is there would be nothing.

 

[speeds]

Newton was a biblical creationist and a follower of Christ. And what "story" is being told? The point is there would be nothing.

 

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