Thursday, October 18, 2007

Powerful Thoughts To Consider

There are three great themes in the twentieth century....the atom, the computer, and the gene.
Harold Varmus

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
Robert L. Park

There is no evidence that any country or race is better than any other in scientific teachability: there is a good deal of evidence that all are much alike.
C. P. Snow

I discovered, though unconsciously and insensibly, that the pleasure of observing and reasoning was a much higher one than that of skill and sport.
Charles Darwin

The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative forever.....Only in our subjective experience of conviction, in our subjective faith, can we be "ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN."
Karl Popper

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