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Quotes from scientists
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exchemist
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"If you can't explain your physics to a barmaid, it is probably not very good physics."
Attributed to Ernest Rutherford.......
.....and notable for being utter rubbish! But then he lived at the end of the era in which Newtonian mechanics was just about enough to handle most problems in physics.
Attributed to Ernest Rutherford.......
.....and notable for being utter rubbish! But then he lived at the end of the era in which Newtonian mechanics was just about enough to handle most problems in physics.
exchemist
Veteran Member
"We looked at it, carefully, and that's the way it [nature] looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else! To another universe, where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy."
Richard Feynman - explaining he was not going to pretend quantum physics is easier than it is.
Original video here:
Richard Feynman - explaining he was not going to pretend quantum physics is easier than it is.
Original video here:
PureX
Veteran Member
This is smarter (and deeper) than it appears on the surface. I wonder if Kepler realized this?
PureX
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I like Neil, but this is simply untrue.
PureX
Veteran Member
The magnificence of 'artifice'.
PureX
Veteran Member
This is, in part, why philosophy is important. Creativity is an excellent tool, but without reason, and qualification, it goes nowhere.
PureX
Veteran Member
Ditto!
I'm not sure if he was a scientist, but I like this quote by Walter Kotschnig:
"Let us keep our minds open, by all means, as long as that means keeping our sense of perspective and seeking an understanding of the forces which mould the world. But don’t keep your minds so open that your brains fall out!"
"Let us keep our minds open, by all means, as long as that means keeping our sense of perspective and seeking an understanding of the forces which mould the world. But don’t keep your minds so open that your brains fall out!"
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
"Not knowing is much more interesting than believing an answer which might be wrong."
-- Richard Feynman
-- Richard Feynman
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
"Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future."
-- Niels Bohr
-- Niels Bohr
I'm not so sure about that. When we think of Stephen J. Gould's notion that science and religion are "non-overlapping magisterial," I think what's being said is that there really is no commonality between them. They are totally different ways of thinking about the world, and "as they are currently practiced," tend not to borrow from one another.
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
"unless we love the truth"
Is it must for the Skeptics/Humanists to love truth, please?
Regards
exchemist
Veteran Member
Yes, but that's what is so slippery about Tyson's way of expressing it. "No common ground" means there is nothing on which the two parties can agree, suggesting in effect a fundamental opposition between the two. Gould was far more careful and non-confrontational. He suggests, rather, that the two are simply orthogonal to one another, addressing different questions.
No. It is enough to simply accept the truth, when it is shown to be the truth. There are truths that are not going to be easy to love -- for example when your doctor tells you that you have an inoperable cancer, and need to get your affairs in order.
shmogie
Well-Known Member
Hmmm. Jesus asked ¨ what is truth?¨"He answered His own question "I am the Truth¨.
exchemist
Veteran Member
Are you sure? I thought that was Pontius Pilate.
PureX
Veteran Member
It was hyperbole. And I'm sure that Neil knew that. The commonality is us. The commonality is the fact of our insurmountable cognitive limitations. The commonality is our willingness and desire to see patterns, and meaning, in the great mystery of being.