Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkStephen Hawking on Time Travel: The Hidden Science Behind Warping Space-Time
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"Since we can’t change the way the universe began, the question of whether time travel is possible is one of whether we can subsequently make space–time so warped that one can go back to the past. I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel. Yet it is a very serious question."
Stephen Hawking
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAlexander Unzicker | Particle physics is money thrown away
The sensational news that a fundamental particle has been discovered is somewhere between a misuse of language and a lie. What was found did not solve a single problem in physics, and yet was immediately celebrated as the discovery of the century. Whether this was deliberate misdirection, shameless puffery or foolish parroting remains to be seen. [...] The idea of tens of thousands of physicists conducting an unmanageable experiment on a nonsensical theoretical model, seems to prohibit itself. It is too painful to even consider. But this is soberly true. Particle physics is money thrown away.”
Alexander Unzicker
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkDr. Ernst Chain on the Unfathomable Complexity of Life’s Origin – Nobel Prize 1945
"I have said for years that speculations about the origin of life lead to no useful purpose as even the simplest living system is far too complex to be understood in terms of the extremely primitive chemistry scientists have used in their attempts to explain the unexplainable that happened billions of years ago."
Dr. Ernst Chain
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkRupert Sheldrake on Scientism: The Danger of Dogmatic Belief in Science
""scientism is where people turn science into a kind of religion. It becomes a kind of dogmatic belief system. The irony is that a lot of people think that religion is dogmatic and science is free-thinking, but actually, in my experience, some of the most dogmatic people I know are people who've made science into a kind of religion. We still have flat earthers, we have people that don't believe in vaccinations, and what do we do about it?""
Rupert Sheldrake
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkSir Fred Hoyle Quote – How Paradigms Block Science Today!
"Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down."
Sir Fred Hoyle
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkEverything Begins with Questions – Neil Postman
"Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNeil deGrasse Tyson Quote: The Hard Truth About Science and the Universe!
"So, what you learn when you study science in general, but astrophysics especially, is that you no longer invoke your senses to judge what makes sense, or you no longer invoke your personal philosophies to judge what should be true. The universe is what it is, and it really doesn't care about your senses."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNormal Science – Quote by Thomas Kuhn
""Normal science" means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice."
Thomas Kuhn
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkSocial Science and Humanities – Quote by Allan Bloom
"Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. ... The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not."
Allan Bloom
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkThomas Kuhn on Critical Discourse and Science
"To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers."
Thomas Kuhn
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkThomas Kuhn on Paradigm Choice and Science
"As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone."
Thomas Kuhn
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkThomas Kuhn on Science and Philosophical Analysis
"It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers."
Thomas Kuhn
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJohn Francis Clauser on Dangerous Corruption of Climate Science – Revealing Insights!
"The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science."
John Francis Clauser
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHenrik Svensmark on the True Influence of the Sun on Climate – Revealing Insights!
"My work is about the effect of the sun on climate, and if the sun has a decisive influence on climate, that means that the influence of CO2 is smaller. That doesn't fit with the narrative that CO2 is supposed to be such a dominant factor in global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a UN organization that admits members based on area, political affiliation, and in some cases merit. My work is in fact ignored by it. In the Climategate emails, that went public in 2011, I noticed an email discussing possible authors for the IPCC's fifth assessment report. One qualification for an author had to be that he was 'anti-Svensmark'."
Henrik Svensmark
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkCarl Sagan Quotes on Science and Society – The Warning of America’s Downfall
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreshadowing of an America in the time of my children or grandchildren – when the United States is a service and information economy; when Almost all major manufacturing industries have moved to other countries; when terrible technological powers are in the hands of too few, and no one representing the public interest can understand the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agenda. Lost or deliberately questioned by those in power; when, holding our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our vital faculties decline, in distinguishing between what feels good and what is true Unable, we go back to superstition and darkness, almost without noticing.
America’s downfall is most evident in the slow decay of real content in the most influential media, 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), credible presentations on lowest common denominator programming, pseudoscience and superstition, but especially From a kind of celebration of ignorance."
Dr. Carl Edward Sagan