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We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Robert M. Pirsig

Spiritual, Artist, Scientist

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...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

Mohammed Arkoun

Risk, Islam, Assuming

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Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present scientific knowledge. In common parlance: `The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Barry Price

Light, Answers, Common

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I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

Charles Hard Townes

God, Faith, Believe

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On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

Karl Jaspers

Lying, Knowledge, Science

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In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition, a specimen of fossil man must be discovered in intelligence, attested by scientific knowledge, and interpreted by evolutionary experience. These rigorous prerequisites have undoubtedly caused many still-births in human palaeontology and are partly responsible for the high infant mortality of discoveries of geologically ancient man.

Earnest Hooton

Knowledge, Science, Animal

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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Spiritual, Philosophical, Mean

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No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

Margaret Mead

Technology, Temptation, Mastery

"Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: One of the Most Famous Anthropologists in the World". Voice of America Special English: "People in America" with Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith, learningenglish.voanews.com. July 1, 2011.

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All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

Konrad Lorenz

Fun, Men, Roles

Konrad Lorenz (1971). “Studies in animal and human behaviour”

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Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

Adolf Hitler

Faith, Respect, Religious

Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

Self, Marketing, Noise

Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin

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An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Marie Stopes

Curiosity, Body, Structure

Married Love ch. 5 (1918)

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All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.

Darrel Ray

Sex, Sexuality

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The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

Oswald Chambers

Jesus, Men, Understanding

Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”

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What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.

Jean Piaget

Roots, Different, Next Level

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Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.

Andrew Bernstein

Art, Philosophy, Independent

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The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

Ray Bradbury

Dream, Wall, Years

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.126, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Change, Country, Reality

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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

Gaston Bachelard

Would Be, Response, Ifs

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... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.

Maria W. Stewart

Education, Teaching, Ignorance

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In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .

Philip K. Dick

Philosophy, Law, Gunpowder

"To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962". Book by Gregg Rickman, 1989.

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Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although human beings have the capacity to develop scientific knowledge, it must be a very limited capacity because it is only done in very narrow and specific domains.

Noam Chomsky

Thinking, Would Be, Done

Source: chomsky.info

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Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Spiritual, Educational

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Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more akin to religion. The main epicenter of hysteria is not the scientific community but seems to be Hollywood.

Doug Casey

Hysteria, Community, Hollywood

Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.93, Laissez Faire Books

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If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.

William Cecil Dampier

Lying, Men, Years

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