Lawrence M. Principe
Related JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be nece... DAVID HILBERT The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE ARTHUR MILLER early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettabl... THOMAS C. ODEN C. JOYBELL C. DALAI LAMA CHRISTOPHER DAWSON What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus ... HUGO GERNSBACK SAM HARRIS The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a ... ALBERT J. NOCK ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ALBION W. SMALL SEBASTIAN THRUN A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason dis... EMILY GREENE BALCH ALDOUS HUXLEY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS C. JOYBELL C. STEVE MARABOLI Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE URSULA K. LE GUIN STEVE MARABOLI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM EDWARD SAPIR RIDLEY SCOTT HENRY A. WALLACE OCTAVIO PAZ FLANNERY O'CONNOR The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress... RONALD FISHER Perhaps the strangest manifestation of the Eurocentric approach to the history of military technolog... PETER A. LORGE CARL SAGAN LEWIS MUMFORD MICHAEL DIRDA It may be that in the future the great intellectual struggle will be waged between the Christian fai... D. R. G. OWEN At this time in history, there is a lot of emphasis on religion and science. There is also a growing... GREG FIELDS TOM BROKAW CARL SAGAN Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton... DAVID BENTLEY HART DR. CARL SAGAN Actually, what we really need to remember about Galileo is that most of the people who use his name ... MICHAEL COREN Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes diff... PETER LANDESMAN DAVID OGILVY E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy a... WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... OS GUINNESS DEBASISH MRIDHA CRAIG GROESCHEL TOM WOLFE The trajectory of a lot of black lives in the 20th century was people moving into cities. A lot of t... ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON LIN YUTANG ALDOUS HUXLEY This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.CRISTIANE SERRUYA RICHARD DAWKINS Radionics was conceived as a diagnostic and treatment technology at a time when modern electronic th... DUNCAN LAURIE OS GUINNESS Certainly If John moschos where to come back today it is likely that he would find much more than th... WILLIAM DALRYMPLE LOIS LOWRY Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in... WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observ... R. JOSEPH HOFFMANN Experifaith is distinctly different from storyfaith. It does not provide answers to life’s big que... GUDJON BERGMANN HAROLD BLOOM CARL SAGAN DAVID LEE I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in ... DANIEL PIPES WILLIAM BARRETT DEYTH BANGER G.K. CHESTERTON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Does not the public repudiation of the whole Christian scheme of life in a large part of what was on... J. H. OLDHAM ANNA QUINDLEN BERTRAND RUSSELL BERTRAND RUSSELL ALBERT EINSTEIN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE He was an extraordinary thinker who helped shape what the modern spy was, both in his work at MI6 an... ANDREW LAZAR J. I. PACKER BERTRAND RUSSELL CHRISTINA ENGELA NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS KENNETH R. MILLER NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was ... ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN CRAIG GROESCHEL ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. ... CRAIG SHIRLEY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA GERMANY KENT
More Lawrence M. Principe
Many people today acquiesce in the widespread myth, devised in the late 19th century, of an epic bat... LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE Donald Trump's candidacy has been a source of anxiety for many reasons, but one stands out: the ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a t... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS For all of his bravado, obnoxiousness, hatred, and vitriol, the scariest thing about Trump, to me, i... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the oppo... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS These days, gun violence can strike anywhere, from a church hall in Charleston to a movie theatre or... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of c... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS I am in favor of saying, 'Okay, let's get teams of educators and experts in certain discipli... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cann... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible diffe... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the su... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fie... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and rel... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specif... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior th... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it impl... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS One thing I cannot understand - and people are probably going to be upset about this - is why local ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Ta... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and frui... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations ca... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, onto... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably ca... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS On the question of preserving public lands, Trump replies that our elected officials have spent too ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas. LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Symmetry does mean something different for physicists than for members of the public. It means that ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sph... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but pro... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS When considering real-world issues, particularly those that touch on science and technology, it is h... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive. LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell s... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the sim... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS A snowflake is another beautifully ordered example of what simple, natural meteorological processes ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peac... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable. LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find somet... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS It's in the interest of that district that democracy be preserved. LAWRENCE M. OTTER The last time I looked, when you call somebody a criminal and it ain't true, that's libel per se. LAWRENCE M. OTTER It was true in the 19th century, and it's true today. LAWRENCE M. OTTER Eventually, every political question becomes a legal question. LAWRENCE M. OTTER There are times when the law grinds kind of slowly. LAWRENCE M. OTTER Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be born. LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS I am a diamond M -I would die for youM Morals; the pathetic answer to authorityM. COCHET M. I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. M. M. COADY We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a... VICKI LAWRENCE LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI JENNIFER LAWRENCE I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move. VICKI LAWRENCE I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b... LAWRENCE KUDLOW The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio... LAWRENCE KUDLOW Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage. LAWRENCE KUDLOW D.H. LAWRENCE We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi... LAWRENCE KUDLOW Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ... LAWRENCE KUDLOW We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo... VICKI LAWRENCE There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo... LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER JENNIFER LAWRENCE When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th... VICKI LAWRENCE The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real... VICKI LAWRENCE It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p... VICKI LAWRENCE Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur... VICKI LAWRENCE People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th... VICKI LAWRENCE Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett. VICKI LAWRENCE Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did. VICKI LAWRENCE I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett... VICKI LAWRENCE There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you... LAWRENCE TAYLOR On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who vote... LAWRENCE KUDLOW Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton... CAROLINE LAWRENCE And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int... LAWRENCE TAYLOR In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T... LAWRENCE KUDLOW LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI LAWRENCE BIXBY MARK LAWRENCE Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics... LAWRENCE KUDLOW Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm... LAWRENCE KUDLOW MARK LAWRENCE MARK LAWRENCE MARK LAWRENCE LAWRENCE DURRELL BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE R.J. LAWRENCE R.J. LAWRENCE LAWRENCE LESSIG LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI D.H. LAWRENCE LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI D.H. LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE T.E. LAWRENCE LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL MARTIN LAWRENCE LAWRENCE SUTTON LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL HARDING LAWRENCE LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE BIXBY LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL MARK LAWRENCE LAWRENCE DURRELL ELIZABETH LAWRENCE LAWRENCE BIXBY LAWRENCE BLOCK LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI D.H. LAWRENCE BROTHER LAWRENCE D.H. LAWRENCE LAWRENCE BLOCK LAWRENCE BIXBY D.H. LAWRENCE T.E. LAWRENCE I am just going outside and may be some time. LAWRENCE OATES BROTHER LAWRENCE To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our mann... LAWRENCE STERNE MARK LAWRENCE New WikiLeaks-provided e-mails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cas... LAWRENCE KUDLOW LAWRENCE KOHLBERG I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Tr... LAWRENCE KUDLOW I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in ... LAWRENCE BENDER Does anybody remember, back in the depths of the recession of 1981-82, how President Reagan kept his... LAWRENCE KUDLOW LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE WELK LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL LAWRENCE DURRELL Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. ... LAWRENCE KUTNER JENNIFER LAWRENCE Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki... SHARON LAWRENCE The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial... LAWRENCE SUMMERS Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make... LAWRENCE HARGRAVE MARTIN LAWRENCE
What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a sc... 
It is a lie. 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, n... 
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists ... 
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature 
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interp... 
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written... 
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
In every religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. it is in modern day... 
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. 
In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in mo... 
The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise fo... 
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a... 
What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science ... 
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indiffere... 
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... 
A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science... 
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery ... 
Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and internat... 
While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient... 
Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we res... 
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science,... 
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can als... 
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamli... 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
Life is a desire! 
Just as to a man with a hammer, everything is a nail, so in the age of science and technology, every... 
It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. 
Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... 
The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as... 
The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowle... 
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ... 
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from... 
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself 
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that yo... 
Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the dis... 
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say... 
If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a ... 
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to scien... 
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. 
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thou... 
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is ca... 
Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities f... 
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free 
It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion i... 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ... 
In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin... 
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did... 
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers... 
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. 
The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it. 
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn... 
And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta... 
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to
it, if you throw your hear... 
Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f... 
We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u... 
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. 
Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da... 
Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt... 
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi... 
Youth and patience are foreign to one another. 
Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last. 
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. 
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not... 
[in the true mad north] of introspection,
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. 
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u... 
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. 
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ... 
Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We... 
Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow. 
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ... 
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, ... 
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more sui... 
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i... 
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been ... 
You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but fo... 