They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.

The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

If no one ever deviated from currently accepted mainstream Science - we would still have the Flat Earth Society!

Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being?

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

He said he didn't want to brave yet, and I simply replied with being brave isn't an option in this world.

The experience of a miracle means we must recognize that the data offered by our senses recur in regular pattern.