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I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level.
Donald Knuthborn 1938Interview, Computer Literacy Bookshops (1993)
- Computers
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.
Peter Kropotkin1842–1921Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902), Chapter I
- Nature
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
Timothy Leary1920–1996Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
- God
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
Timothy Leary1920–1996Changing My Mind, Among Others: Lifetime Writings (1982), p. 76
- Art
Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.
Vladimir Lenin1870–1924What is to be Done? (1902)
- Ideas
If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents⁠—the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts⁠—i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy⁠—are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?

I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.

It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man (1943), Ch. III
Man’s conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature’s conquest of Man.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man
Men became scientific because they expected law in Nature; and they expected law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Miracles (1947), Ch. 3: “The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism”
- God
In wilderness, I sense the miracle of life, and behind it, our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974“The Wisdom of Wilderness” in LIFE (22 December 1967)
- Nature
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974“Is Civilization Progress?” in Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
- Nature
- Technology
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974Autobiography of Values (1978)
- Life & Death
- Nature
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974Of Flight and Life (1948)
- Technology
The boundaries of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men.
John Locke1632–1704An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book III, Ch. 6, sec. 37