Where words leave off, music begins.
Carl Sagan;
We are Star Stuff which has taken its destiny on its own hands
(Heavier elements used in the chemestry of life are cooked in termonuclear reactions in the center of stars.Some day the star will explode as a supernova.We are acctually the debris of dead stars)
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
Niels Bohr;
Who was not shocked by the quantum theorie ,did not understand it.
J.B.S Haldane;
Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose..
John Barrow
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time
Arthur Schopenhauer;
Im Allgemeinen freilich haben die Weisen aller Zeiten immer das Selbe gesagt, und die Thoren, d.h. die unermessliche Majoritat aller Zeiten haben immer das Gegenteil gethan.
Mark Twain;
Faith is believing something you know ain't true.
Benjamin Franklin;
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Aldous Huxley;.
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas Jefferson;
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be
John F. Kennedy;
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived, and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive , and unrealistic.
Oscar Wilde;
Science is the record of dead religions.
Truth in matter of religions is simply the opinion that has survived.
Rene Descartes;
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt.
Horace Walpole;
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Michael Shermer;
Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.
Bertrand Russel;
The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true."
Charles Darwin;
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Voltaire;
If God made us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
Epicurus;
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Montaigne;
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Ludwig Borne;
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Graham Greene;
Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
Derek Bok Ex-president of Harvard;
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Stephen Hawking
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is that breathes fire in to the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compeling that it brings about its own existence?
Humanity`s deepste desire for knowledge is justification enought for our continuing quest. And our goal is no less than a complete description of the universe we live in
By Richard Dawkins;
Life results from the non random survilval of randomly varying replicators.(se n�o entendeu, leia os livros de Dawkins)
There is this thing been so open minded your brains drop out.
Scientifc truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money.Astrology is an aesthetic affront.It cheapens astronomy,like using beethoven for commercial jingles.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature,but is socially accetable to boast ignorance of science.
We admit that we are like apes,but we seldom realise that we are apes.
Most people think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world,and especially the existence of life.They are wrong, but our educational system is such that many people do not know it.
Science offers us an explanation of how complexity(the difficult) arose out of simplicity(the easy).The hypothesis of god offers no worthwhile explanationfo anything, for it simple postulates what is trying to explain.