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Post by Smithee on Jan 28, 2013 18:15:38 GMT 10
"When you hear hoof-beats think horses not zebras." - Theodore Woodward
Prefer even zebras to unicorns - addendum.
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 11, 2013 9:00:51 GMT 10
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble ourselves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact
Bernard Fontenelle (Born this day 1657)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 13, 2013 6:23:56 GMT 10
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes — an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense
Carl Sagan
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 14, 2013 6:21:18 GMT 10
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism
George Jean Nathan (Born this day 1882)
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Post by Smithee on Mar 13, 2013 14:05:14 GMT 10
"How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades." - Michael Shermer.
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Post by Tamrin on May 30, 2013 9:53:30 GMT 10
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science
Hal Clement (Born this day 1922)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 17, 2014 8:25:34 GMT 10
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