By and large, Jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldnt

want your daughter to associate with.

Duke Ellington
We no longer inherit the Earth from our parents we borrow it from our
children.
En!ironmental slogan
"ur most fundamental humanity is that we co#inhabit this small blue
planet, and that we care for our childrens future. $his being true, it is
ob!ious that we must protect the basic life support systems that are
embedded in the e!er shrinking natural en!ironment.
Joshua %night
&o human in!estigation can be called real science if it cannot be
demonstrated mathematically.
'eonardo da (inci
$he wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and
science.
J.B.). *aldane
+athematics is the door and the key to the sciences , -or the things of
this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
.oger Bacon
.eligion without science is blind.
)cience without religion is lame.
/lbert Einstein
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the
e!il that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands
his own badness less and less....0ood people know about both good and
e!il1 bad people do not know about either.
Euthypros Dilema 2 3.) 'ewis
4t is an unbroken torture to me that 4 am still so far from him whom 4
know go!erns e!ery breath of my life and whose offspring 4 am. 4 know it
is because of the e!il passions within me that keep me so far from him yet
4 can5t get away from them.
0ahndi 2 reflecting late in life
4f hell is infinitely bad, and there is a small probability it e6ists, then it is
in mans rational interest to act as if god e6ists.
7ascals wager
$here are only 89 types of people in this world, those who get binary :
those who dont.
$his world is a tragedy for those who feel : a comedy for those who
think.
*orace Walpole
4 re;ect your reality and substitute my own.
/dam )a!age
$he ability to hold an idea without accepting it is the mark of an educated
mind.
4 was ne!er more certain of how far away 4 was from my goal, than when
4 was standing right beside it.
Gattaca
$he more ad!ance society becomes the more we ha!e discrimination,
stereotyping and pre;udice down to a science.
Gattaca
-or the genetically superior success is easier obtained, but it is buy no
means guaranteed, for there is no gene for fate.
Gattaca
4f you cant find a hero, create your own.
7aul +ac
"ur entire society rests upon 2 and is dependent upon 2 our water, our
land, our forests, and our minerals. *ow we use these resources influences
our health, security, economy and well being.
John -. %ennedy
$he intelligent theist is not dogmatically arguing he holds the ob;ecti!e
truth, rather he is arguing that theism can rationally e6plain the uni!erse
better than atheism.
)ir John 7olkinghorne
4 know how terrible humanity is,
/s 4 think myself as one of the better e6amples,
/nd 4 know how bad 4 am.
&ow all has been heard here is the conclusion of the matter1 fear 0od and
keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. -or 0od will
bring e!ery deed into ;udgement, including e!ery hidden thing, wether it is
good or e!il.
Ecclesiastes 8<18=#8>
$he reason 4 dont debate with creationists, is that they don5t mind being
beaten in an argument. What matters is that we gi!e them recognition and
credit by bothering to argue with them in public.
.ichard Dawkins
4f you are simply guessing, you are claiming knowledge of the physical
uni!erse disco!ered in some other way than by the methods of physical
science : admittedly un!erifiable by such methods. ?oure a
metaphysician. Bah@
)ir /rthur Eddington # The Philosophy of Physical Science
$he belie!er in Amiracles is arguing that the uni!erse does not beha!e
rationally, e6cept he has to belie!e his brain is rational enough to produce
the argument for miracles, or indeed anything we can know about the
uni!erse.
7aul Da!ies # God and the New Physics
B... there are many reasons why you might not understand Can e6planation
of a scientific theoryD ... -inally, there is this possibility1 after 4 tell you
something, you ;ust can5t belie!e it. ?ou can5t accept it. ?ou don5t like it. /
little screen comes down and you don5t listen anymore. 45m going to
describe to you how &ature is # and if you don5t like it, that5s going to get
in the way of your understanding it. 4t5s a problem that CscientistsD ha!e
learned to deal with1 $hey5!e learned to realize that whether they like a
theory or they don5t like a theory is not the essential Euestion. .ather, it is
whether or not the theory gi!es predictions that agree with e6periment. 4t
is not a Euestion of whether a theory is philosophically delightful, or easy
to understand, or perfectly reasonable from the point of !iew of common
sense. C/ scientific theoryD describes &ature as absurd from the point of
!iew of common sense. /nd it agrees fully with e6periment. )o 4 hope you
can accept &ature as )he is # absurd.
45m going to ha!e fun telling you about this absurdity, because 4 find it
delightful. 7lease don5t turn yourself off because you can5t belie!e &ature
is so strange. Just hear me all out, and 4 hope you5ll be as delighted as 4 am
when we5re through. B
.ichard 7. -eynman Introduction to QED F8G8H#8GHHI