— Clifford D. Simak American writer, journalist 1904 - 1988
Ch. 35
— Hannes Alfvén Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist 1908 - 1995
p. 196.
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German philosopher 1770 - 1831
Context: It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?" Many think that by pronouncing a doctrine to be Neo-Platonic, they have ipso facto banished it from Christianity. Whether a Christian doctrine stands exactly thus or thus in the Bible, the point to which the exegetical scholars of modern times devote all their attention is not the only question. The Letter kills, the Spirit makes alive: this they say themselves, yet pervert the sentiment by taking the Understanding for the Spirit.
Pt. III, sec. 3, ch. 2 Lectures on the History of History Vol 1 p. 344 John Sibree translation (1857), 1914
— Aron Ra 1962
"6th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3k0dDFxkhM, Youtube (February 2, 2008)
— Jayant Narlikar Indian physicist 1938
— Carl Sagan American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator 1934 - 1996
Context: But we don't yet know whether the Universe is open or closed. More than that, there are a few astronomers who doubt that the redshift of distant galaxies is due to the doppler effect, who are skeptical of the expanding Universe and the Big Bang. Perhaps our descendants will regard our present ignorance with as much sympathy as we feel to the ancients for not knowing the Earth went around the Sun. If the general picture, however, of a Big Bang followed by an expanding Universe is correct, what happened before that? Was the Universe devoid of all matter and then the matter suddenly somehow created, how did that happen? In many cultures, the customary answer is that a God or Gods created the Universe out of nothing. But if we wish to pursue this question courageously, we must of course ask the next question: where did God come from? If we decide that this is an unanswerable question, why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the Universe is an unanswerable question? Or, if we say that God always existed, why not save a step, and conclude that the Universe always existed? That there's no need for a creation, it was always here. These are not easy questions. Cosmology brings us face to face with the deepest mysteries, questions that were once treated only in religion and myth.
— Alan Turing British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist 1912 - 1954
Context: "Can machines think?"... The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the 'imitation game." It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart front the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B... We now ask the question, "What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?" Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace our original, "Can machines think?"
— Clive James Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist 1939
'Two Essays on Theodore Roethke'
— Paul Smith (musician) English rock singer 1979
About a free Tyneside gig.
What's On North East http://www.whatsonne.co.uk/gb/music/news/interview-paul-smith-maximo-park
— Leigh Brackett American novelist and screenwriter 1915 - 1978
Chapter 15 (p. 128)
— Julian Huxley English biologist, philosopher, author 1887 - 1975
Context: As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the universe — in a few of us human beings. Perhaps it has been realized elsewhere too, through the evolution of conscious living creatures on the planets of other stars. But on this our planet, it has never happened before.
— Paul Tillich German-American theologian and philosopher 1886 - 1965
p. 121
— Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
— Luboš Motl Czech physicist and translator 1973
The answer is "Yes, She is."
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/10/skin-color-gene.html
