The unprecedented powers that science now makes available must be accompanied by unprecedented levels of ethical focus and concern by the scientific community – as well as the most broadly based public education into the importance of science and democracy.
The roots of tyranny and freedom trace back to long before recorded history, and are etched in our genes.
En la ciencia no hay preguntas prohibidas, no hay temas demasiado sensibles o delicados para ser explorados, no hay verdades sagradas.
He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had gotten filtered out before it reached him. Our cultural motifs, our educational system, our communications media had failed this man. What the society permitted to trickle through was mainly pretense and confusion. It had never taught him how to distinguish real science from the cheap imitation. He knew nothing about how science works.
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
In all our journeying through space and time, it is, so far, the only world on which we know with certainty that the matter of the Cosmos has become alive and aware.
I have only one regret,” he had said in his gravelly voice. “My daughter married a Bulgarian.
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge.
Kita masih menyebut matahari TERBIT dan TENGGELAM. Sudah 2.200 tahun semenjak Aristarkhos tapi bahasa kita masih mengatakan seakan-akan bumi tidak berputar.
And what is the evidence for this conclusion? Chiefly, it is the 11th and 12th verses of Luke, Chapter 21, in which Jesus talks about “great signs from Heaven” – nothing like a UFO is described – in the last days. Typically, Lindsey ignores verse 32, in which Jesus makes it very clear he is talking about events in the first, not the twentieth, century.
So, I think the bureaucratic religions try to institutionalize your perception of the numinous instead of providing the means so you can perceive the numinous directly – like looking through a six-inch telescope. If sensing the numinous is at the heart of religion, who’s more religious would you say – the people who follow the bureaucratic religions or the people who teach themselves science?
A survey shows that more college graduates are homosexual than those with lesser education; therefore education makes people gay.
In 1993, the supreme religious authority of Saudi Arabia, Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz, issued an edict, or fatwa, declaring that the world is flat.
Freedom of belief is pernicious,” Bellarmine wrote on another occasion. “It is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.
According to the World Health Organization, smoking kills three million people every year worldwide.
This will rise to ten million annual deaths by 2020 – in part because of a massive advertising campaign to portray smoking as advanced and fashionable to young women in the developing world.
So in an age when traditional religions have been under withering fire from science, is it not natural to wrap up the old gods and demons in scientific raiment and call them aliens?
No Satan, no God.
Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.
Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom.