"Evolution, of sorts, doesn't necessarily have to equate with Darwinism. Science is stupid and pointless. Praise Jesus." - ABM
Sorry, I can't let this thread die on an ABM quote, but I thought I would quote some non-scientists. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. JFK Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction Jimi Hendrix When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. Steven Wright You win again, gravity! Zapp Brannigan
"Take" is an apt description, since he took it from Joni Mitchell who wrote this when he was 15. [video=youtube;8GiGUtZOi_I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GiGUtZOi_I[/video]
I could search but here is one I remember "It would be contrary to the scientific spirit" Marie Curie, on why she did not patent radium, thus giving up opportunity for wealth. Here is one from Greta Christina:
yeah, that one about different stars in different hands. That's just not plausible. I mean, you start out as a single celled organism in the womb. Your body would have to somehow sort out the material you eat by star type and distribute it to each hand appropriately. So yeah, that's wrong.
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.” ― Charles Darwin
“The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statues, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen—that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugenics. Materialism is really our established Church; for the government will really help it to persecute its heretics…I am not frightened of the word ‘persecution’…It is a term of legal fact. If it means the imposition by the police of a widely disputed theory, incapable of final proof—then our priests are not now persecuting, but our doctors are.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
