"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein
"It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that
things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which
never have yet been tried."
Francis Bacon Novum Organum VI
"There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible
things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When
I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes
I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
From Alice in wonderland
"What was life? No one knew the actual point whence it sprang, where
it kindled itself�Between the protean amoeba and the vertebrate the
difference was slight, unessential, as compared to that between the
simplest organism and that nature which did not even deserve to be
called dead, because it was inorganic. For death was only the logical
negation of life; but between life and inanimate nature yawned a gulf
which research strove in vain to bridge. They tried to close it with
hypotheses, which it swallowed down without becoming any less deep or
broad."
Thomas Mann, 1924
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and
has forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein
" scientist is supposed to have a complete and thorough knowledge,
at first hand, of some subjects and, therefore, is usually expected not
to write on any topic of which he is not a life master. This is
regarded as a matter of noblesse oblige. For the present purpose I beg
to renounce the noblesse, if any, and to be the freed of the ensuing
obligation. �some of us should venture to embark on a synthesis of
facts and theories, albeit with second-hand and incomplete knowledge of
some of them -and at the risk of making fools of ourselve".
Schr?dinger
"An intellect which at any given moment knew all the forces that
animate Nature and the mutual positions of the beings that comprises
it. If this intellect were vast enough to submit its data to analysis,
could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest
bodies of the universe and that of the lightest atom: for such an
intellect nothing could be uncertain: and the future just like the past
would be present before its eyes".
Laplace
"Any entity in the world around us, such as an individual human
being, owes its existence not only to the simple fundamental law of
physics and the boundary condition on the early universe but also to
the outcomes of an inconceivably long sequence of probabilistic events,
each of which could have turned out differently. Now a great many of
those accidents, for instance most cases of the bouncing of a
particular molecule in a gas to the right rather than the left in a
molecular collision, have few ramifications for the future
coarse-grained histories. Sometimes, however, an accident can have
widespread consequences for the future, although those are typically
restricted to particular regions of space and time. Such a "frozen
accident" produces a great deal of mutual algorithmic information among
various parts or aspects of a future coarse-grained history of the
universe, for many such histories and for various ways of dividing them
up."
Gell-Mann
"�Darwin, a free thinker who dared make far-reaching conclusions
based on observations, would have been dismayed to see the petrified
doctrine his brainchild has become. Must we admit that all organisms
are nothing but watery Turing machines evolved merely by a sequence of
accidents favored by nature? Or do we have the intellectual freedom to
rethink this fundamental issue?�
Eshel Ben Jacob, Endorsement on the Book "Uncommon Dissent" By William Dembski
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
Albert Einstein
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