Tony Rothman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.
-- Tony Rothman

#Order #Wish #Atheism
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
-- Tony Rothman

#Stupid #May #Feels
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.
-- Tony Rothman

#Thinking #Opposites #Age
The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, itÂ¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.
-- Tony Rothman

#Moving #Eye #Angel

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.
Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

Tony Rothman famous quotes

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