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| e0f2dfe | CEI in 1992 "advised" the Food and Drug Administration to approve recombinant bovine somatotropin, which is a bioengineered growth hormone. Now surely such recommendation would be accompanied by the further suggestion of labeling the resulting products so that consumer choice- that ultimate driver of market forces-could be openly exercised? Think again: the CEI argued that mandatory labeling of dairy products is "inappropriate" because it v.. | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| 646e224 | Looking to salvage one shining thing from the mire. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 123592b | the nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world. | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| 3afe261 | one does not need experiments to do science. While this claim may sound strange and counterintuitive at first, a moment's reflection will show that it is obviously true: astronomers do not conduct experiments, and yet we think of astronomy as solidly situated within the sciences, not the humanities or the pseudosciences. Why? Because astronomers can carry out the two fundamental activities that, jointly considered, truly characterize a scie.. | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| f0fe2d8 | These and similar examples are easy enough to uncover, and they make two crucial points: first, good science does not require experiments, it can be done with an intelligent use of observational evidence; second, there is more than one way to do science, depending on the nature of the questions and the methods typical of the field. | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| f31ef60 | the boundaries separating science, nonscience, and pseudoscience are much fuzzier and more permeable than (or, for that matter, most scientists) would have us believe. There is, in other words, no litmus test. | fractal karl-popper philosophy-of-science pseudoscience | Massimo Pigliucci | |
| 0bdfcee | For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert; but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact. --Thomas Sowell, American economist | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| 2c5dfb2 | It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea that constellations are a whimsical projection of the human mind than a reflection of astronomic reality." | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| 5daa4bc | Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.-Adam Smith | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| a8eacce | The many-worlds theory basically maintains that the reason quantum mechanics seems so strange is because we have access to only one of an infinite number of worlds. From our narrow perspective, the output of certain measurements (like that of the double-slit experiment) seems random and probabilistic, but that is an artifact of the fact that, literally, we don't have the full picture. | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| 1ad1c01 | Better to endure pain in an honorable manner than to seek joy in a shameful one. There is a way to understand | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| 65c650c | if I think (and I do) that Deepak Chopra talks nonsense when he tells people about quantum mechanical elixirs of youth, I would first have to be an expert in quantum mysticism. But the problem is that quantum mysticism is (I think) quackery, and that therefore there is no such thing as an "expert" on quantum mysticism." | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| 1aaf8fc | are we going to teach the best of what we currently know about the world (however provisional such knowledge may be), or shall we decide if the earth is flat or round by majority consensus? | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| fb9fcd2 | Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. | Anton Chekhov | ||
| 49143f0 | Or maybe, another explanation goes, we are in fact surrounded by ETs and simply don't know it, perhaps because they decided to make the solar system a natural reserve, a place where other races can go and see what it is like to be in the infancy of civilization (appropriately, this has been nicknamed the "zoo hypothesis")." | Massimo Pigliucci | ||
| f81974b | A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that. | Robert Ferrigno | ||
| 171e77e | met him the day after, | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 814c580 | English medieval history is impossible to understand without France, which exerted a huge cultural influence over its northern neighbor well into the modern era, and so the story of the Seven Kingdoms is not just that of England but rather Britain, France, and Spain in one. In Martin's words, "Westeros is much much MUCH bigger than Britain. More the size (though not the shape, obviously) of South America."9 Although the Seven Kingdoms all s.. | Ed West | ||
| 775a0cc | Battle is a frightening thing, a terrible thing, but once you develop a taste for it...nothing else comes close. | Robert Ferrigno | ||
| 898a404 | Plan for the day when all your plans fail, when those you trust betray you, when your certainty cracks like a rotten egg and you are alone in the storm. | Robert Ferrigno | ||
| a5044ff | People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share. | Anton Chekhov | ||
| cd081cb | She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter ', ... | Anton Chekhov | ||
| 986cbbf | Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. | Anton Chekhov | ||
| 235a6fb | Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom. | Anton Chekhov | ||
| 4ece9e3 | A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog. | Anton Chekhov | ||
| df9ed13 | Unfortunately, as expressed by Watchman Nee, "By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever." I say it's time we burn. In fact, the Word commands us to be fervent (which means red-hot) in spirit in Romans 12:11, so that others can catch fire as well." | Michael Brown | ||
| 1b4ddb3 | The first and foremost sign of new birth in anyone is that he knows God intuitively, for his spirit has been quickened. | Watchman Nee | ||
| de0453e | to offer one-tenth to God; but under the new covenant, ten-tenths are required. | Watchman Nee | ||
| edb8b48 | When you're in a weak position, getting the best deal possible is a victory. | Robert Ferrigno | ||
| cba1f1a | Maybe propinquity was counterproductive. * | Glen Cook | ||
| 84cd2ad | Give the agent something easy to reject, something to justify his authority - that way they won't look too closely at the rest of your things. | Robert Ferrigno | ||
| 09933a2 | God knows no good resides in man; no flesh can please Him. It is corrupted beyond repair. Since it is so absolutely hopeless, how then can man please God after he has believed in His Son unless He gives him something new? Thank God. He has bestowed a new life, His untreated life, upon those who believe in the salvation of the Lord Jesus and receive Him as their personal Savior. This is called "regeneration" or "new birth." Though He cannot .. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 6646472 | Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake"--This is the selfdenial. and cross-bearing spoken of in the preceding verse. Losing the soul is the same as denying the self. The Lord concedes that if for His sake anyone is willing to forsake all the pleasures of the soul and to suffer according to the will of God, he will find the soul. It simply means that whoever is willing for the sake of the Lord to deny his own thoughts and desires so as no.. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 4a0cbfc | If any person desires to think, he must possess memory, imagination and reasoning power; but the Christian has presently lost these powers, hence is unable to think. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 9e332f1 | Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate very soon. | Watchman Nee | ||
| fe8ee2d | I had been reading a book by Watchman Nee. It stated that two people can hear the same verse preached ("I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes unto the Father but by Me" John 4:16), and one person says, "That's wonderful," and comes to the Father by Jesus Christ, while another person says, "That's wonderful--I'm going to make a plaque and put it on the wall." I" | Jim Wilson | ||
| 0ad5016 | The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind. Though the Christian may not feel like obeying God, | Watchman Nee | ||
| 0918d4a | Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment. | Watchman Nee | ||
| dda5e7b | Let us not argue over our being labeled as either spiritual or carnal. If we are not governed by the Holy Spirit what profit will the mere designation of spiritual be to us? This is after all a matter of life, not of title. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 0ec2b4c | We can never know either the hatefulness of sin or the treachery of our self-nature until there is that flash of God upon us. I speak not of a sensation but of an inward revelation of the Lord Himself through His Word. Such a breaking in of divine light does for us what doctrine alone can never do. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 69415dc | The perfect and genuine faith is that which daily acknowledges the works (i.e., facts) that the Lord has accomplished. The meaning of claiming is to acknowledge daily all that the Lord has accomplished for us, that is, to acknowledge that all these accomplishments are effective in us. Then, | Watchman Nee | ||
| 1652bcf | As we bring our will and thought to God His own will and thought begin to be reproduced in us, and then this becomes our will and thought. This kind of prayer is most valuable and full of weight. Let | Watchman Nee | ||
| 485886d | Do we think because we have prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to reveal His mind and to work in us, that all shall accordingly be done? That assumption is not the truth; for unless we deliver to death specifically and daily our natural life, together with its power, wisdom, self, and sensation and unless we equally desire honestly in our mind and will to obey and rely upon the Holy Spirit, we shall not see Him actually performing the work. | Watchman Nee | ||
| a580486 | Faith was the most powerful force in the universe. | universe | Robert Ferrigno |