Quotes About Perspective

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

Perception defines everything.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.

Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple