Thought of the Day
Quote of the day: Sir Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton expresses his belief in God in the most important scientific work of all time, Principia Mathematica.
Read More...Quote of the day: Sir Joseph J. Thomson
“As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth…
Read More...Quote of the day…Max Planck
“Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.” “There can never be any real opposition between religion and…
Read More...Quote of the day…Werner Heisenberg.
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” “In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of…
Read More...Does science require faith, like religion?
Quora.com question: Does science really require faith like religion? “Anybody who has seriously been engaged in 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. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with… Science cannot solve…
Read More...The darkest secret of science.
What are the darkest secrets of science? The above question was posed at a forum at Quora.com. Below is a copy and paste of my answer: The darkest secret of science is that the science of one age becomes the myth or pseudo-science of the next. Biologist Lynn Margulis, winner of the U.S. Presidential Medal for Science, put it best in…
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