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Tue 7 Aug 2012

Articles of faith

Posted by PJ under faith, quote of the day, science, skepticism
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”

—Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structures

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 9 Jul 2012

Skepticism

Posted by PJ under belief, quote of the day, science, skepticism
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Random quote of the day:

 

“The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them—the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are  morons; that if you’re sensible, you’ll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status. Whereas, an approach that from the beginning acknowledges the human roots of pseudoscience and superstition, that recognizes that society has arranged things so that skepticism is not well taught, might be much more widely accepted.”

—Carl Sagan, “Wonder and Skepticism,” Skeptical Enquirer, Vol. 19, Iss. 1, Jan-Feb 95

 

 


Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 11 Jun 2012

Crazy for loving neu(trinos)

Posted by PJ under creativity, physics, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

 

“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy.  The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.”

—Niels Bohr to Wolfgang Pauli regarding the Heisenberg-Pauli nonlinear theory of elementary particles, quoted in Symposisum on Basic Research by Dael Lee Wolfle

 

 

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Tue 22 May 2012

The Philosopher’s Stone

Posted by PJ under physics, quote of the day, reality, science
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Random quote of the day:

 

“The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution.  It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations.  It is the explanation—the only one that is tenable—of a remarkable counter-intuitive reality.”

—David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality

 

 


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Thu 10 May 2012

Forcing the issue

Posted by PJ under nature, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Don’t fight forces, use them.”

—R. Buckminster Fuller, Shelter

 

 

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Wed 9 May 2012

Infinite gestation

Posted by PJ under physics, quote of the day, science, the universe
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Physicists are increasingly accepting the idea that there are infinite realities stacked together like the pages of a never-ending book.  So there are infinite versions of you, living out infinite different lives in infinite parallel realities.”

—Marcus Chown, The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow’s Science

 

 


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Wed 25 Jan 2012

Skeery

Posted by PJ under courage and fear, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

 

“The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear.”

—Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)

 

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Thu 5 Jan 2012

Stephen Hawking and women

Posted by PJ under science, sexism, women
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Yeah, when you take them for granted, work them into the ground, then announce you have fallen in love with your nurse they get mad and dump your butt to the curb. Big mystery there. But I’m sure all your male colleagues laughed in smugly when you made that remark. You probably don’t have any women “colleagues.”

Sexism is a lot like rust. It never sleeps.

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Thu 27 Oct 2011

Yo, Watson!

Posted by PJ under paranormal, quote of the day, science
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“The generation that so readily embraced spiritualism was the same generation that had been asked to accept such seeming witchery as electricity, telegraphy, radio waves, and telephonic communications—disembodied voices mysteriously traveling through space and emerging from a “receiver” hundreds of miles distant.  (Bell and Watson’s claims for their telephone were initially greeted with more hooting skepticism than were the mediums’ séance shenanigans…)”

—Mary Roach, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

 

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Thu 17 Feb 2011

Magical thinking

Posted by PJ under astrology, belief, quote of the day, science, thinking
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Random quote of the day:

“You can be a believer in astrology and still be a good astronomer.”

—Eugene Subbotsky, quoted in “Magical Thinking,” Psychology Today, Mar/Apr 2008

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