“A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.” IfsMenFeelsShouldRealReasonScienceEvolutionShameAshamedNo ReasonAncestorGrandfatherRhetoricObscureAcquaintanceBe A ManApesPlungeReligious Prejudice Author:Thomas Huxley
“Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.” HumansScienceValuesScientistShameRuinsAppealsAshamedImaginative Author:Jacob Bronowski
“It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.” MenScienceNamesHeavenAccountsShameAssKneesOld ManFormulasFalsehoodSeekersMosesHoodCopernicus Author:Victor Hugo
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.” FeelsScienceMotherTimeTruth IsDaughterShameMidwife Author:Johannes Kepler
“If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.” IfsWantBookPhilosophySpiritualScienceLyingCan DoJusticeMoralityOkayOppositesShameAtheistRecognitionBehavePreachingCheatAgnosticDecencyMafia Author:Dennis McKinsey
“Archimedes said Eureka, Cos in English he weren't too aversed in, when he discovered that the volume of a body in the bath, is equal to the stuff it is immersed in, That is the law of displacement, Thats why ships don't sink, Its a shame he weren't around in 1912, The Titanic would have made him think.” ThinkingMadeSaidBodyLawScienceStuffEqualShameShipsVolumeBathsDisplacement Author:Richard Digance
“The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.” MaySciencePleaseDrawsDevilShameSeriesInventionConclusionParadoxDemonstrationFallacyDivergentDivergent SeriesAbel Author:Niels Henrik Abel