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The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.
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Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
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The greatest scientists are artists as well.
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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.
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Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.
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I don't like writing essays or theory.
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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
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Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
