“If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines - the basis of life - developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach.” IfsLiteratureSilenceFocusEvolutionMachinesUniversalAccountsBasesRaisesFoundationComplexityBarriersDarwinismParalyzedEerie Author:Michael Behe
“It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.” ThinkingKindAgeTurnsUniverseLevelsInformationStrangeEvolutionBuiltMachinesAccountsInsightAll KindsQuantumMysticalLeaksAmplifyMystical Experiences Book:Paths to Otherwhere Source: Paths to Otherwhere
“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.” WayRealSelfSpiritChoicesBeliefSidesHurtTechnologyProgressDangerousDrugShadowMachinesAccountsSafetyMedicineLifestyleExpensiveLazySophisticatedSelf RelianceRelianceSafety NetLifestyle ChoicesShadow Side Author:Andrew Weil
“I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.” StillsIdeasHomeSeemsVoiceNumbersMachinesAccountsPhonesCellsNo IdeaMailGoogleSiteSentimentalCell PhoneFaxFax Machines Author:Susan Orlean
“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.” ThinkingShouldChildrenScienceNaturalProgressMachinesScientistAccountsTalesFairyMechanismFairy TaleImpressMachineryLaboratoryMarieTechniciansNatural PhenomenaScientific Progress Author:Marie Curie
“Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.” HumansSpiritualScienceForcePerfectMoralTeacherFailingNeededProtectElementsIntellectualMachinesAccountsAddStormShipsMagnificentRestraintConstructsHypothesisCompassMachineryVesselMisuseBryanCargoRudders Book:William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution Source: William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution
“[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.” KnowsMenScienceFeltHuman NatureGrewGrew UpMachinesAccountsDiscipleFascinationGodlikePower Man Author:Charles Lindbergh
“It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.” Has BeensIdeasBigsScienceGrowsGrowthHugeAmountMachinesAccountsIncludingDuesMythOur TimeNew Ideas Author:Karl Popper
“But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.” ShouldScienceProcessPrinciplesIntellectualDiscoveryMachinesAccountsFollowingIntellectAstronomyExplorationAstrologyRegularityKepler Author:Marvin Minsky
“Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.” MenWorldWantGivingUseScienceGivenHe ManToolsMachinesAccountsMiracleBoxesMiraculousHumane Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.” ScienceProcessUnderstandingPureMachinesAccountsAimMedicineFruitShyHarvestPragmaticApplied Science Author:Lincoln Barnett