Quotes About Reflection

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.