“God spoiled you humans: He gave you Free Will—the choice to love or to hate, to dream or to work, to climb up or fall down.”
Source: Redemption
“I don't know how I feel about Aria taking a potion every day," Vivian said. She'd seen the floating eyeballs in the apothecary in the village.
"At least with Ritalin, we'd know it's been through a double-blind trial," he [Daniel] agreed reluctantly.”
Source: The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association
“Att världen är oerhört väl inrättad för att inte minst liv skall uppkomma verkar stå utom allt tvivel. Men hur kan detta vara möjligt om världen i minsta detalj är entydigt bestämds av matematisk nödvändighet? Varför skulle matematiken bry sig om att frambringa en levande värld? Är det inte troligare att matematiken i stället tillåter flera olika möjligheter och att den antropiska principen sedan gör resten?”
Source: Stjärnor och äpplen som faller: En bok om upptäckter och märkvärdigheter i universum
“A church typically told people to trust it because it possessed the absolute truth, in the form of an infallible holy book. A scientific institution, in contrast, gained authority because it had strong self-correcting mechanisms that exposed and rectified the errors of the institution itself. It was these self-correcting mechanisms, not the technology of printing, that were the engine of the scientific revolution. In other words, the scientific revolution was launched by the discovery of ignorance. Religions of the book assumed they had access to an infallible source of knowledge.”
Source: NEXUS: A Brief History of Infomation Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Volume.1) [Japanese Edition]
“To be the first aid in someone's wounds, that's the highest sanctity, as well as the right science.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Cup is just crockery, till there is coffee. Head is just a skull, till there is mind.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“The line between magic and science is fuzzy to begin with [...]”
Source: Gifted & Talented
“I used to get bummed in math class when learning theorems: "All the low-hanging fruit has been solved before I was born! If I was alive at the time of Pythagoras I could've easily derived the Pythagorean theorem and etched my place in history!
But now I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would've had access to.
If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems,
If 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species,
Then what topics does the 21st century mind explore?
I'd say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks”
“The problem with experiments is that they tell you nothing unless they are competently done, but in controversial science no-one can agree on a criterion of competence.”
Source: The Golem: What You Should Know about Science
“The origin of science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.”
Source: New Writings by William Hazlitt: Second Series