Science
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The trouble with science is obviously the scientists ;)
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone. – Darwin (writing in Origin of Species), 1859
"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." – Albert Einstein, 1932
The so-called theories of Einstein are merely the ravings of a mind polluted with liberal, democratic nonsense which is utterly unacceptable to German men of science. – Dr. Walter Gross, 1940
“The earth’s crust does not move”- 19th through early 20th century accepted geological science
“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” – Dr. Dionysius Lardner, 1830
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“That virus is a pussycat.” — Dr. Peter Duesberg, molecular-biology professor at U.C. Berkeley, on HIV
“Stomach ulcers are caused by stress” — accepted medical diagnosis, until Dr. Marshall proved that H. pylori caused gastric inflammation by deliberately infecting himself with the bacterium.
“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” – Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883
“Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.” – -Henry Morton, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison’s light bulb, 1880
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” – -Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in a talk given to a 1977 World Future Society meeting in Boston
“Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.” — Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.
‘The abdomen, the chest and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.’ – Sir John Eric Ericson, Surgeon to Queen Victoria, 1873
“If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.” – -W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute, 1954
“Space travel is bunk.” - Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of the UK, 1957 (two weeks later Sputnik orbited the Earth).
“There will never be a bigger plane built.” – - A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people
“When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it.” – Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson
A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” - New York Times, 1936
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth—all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances. - Lee De Forest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, in 1957
We can close the books on infectious diseases. - Surgeon General of the United States William H. Stewart, 1969
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now; All that remains is more and more precise measurement - Lord Kelvin, allegedly speaking to the w:British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1900
- max plank, said something, like new ideas in science only take effect when old scientists die.yurimon
- new ideas in religion never happen because they don't ever changemonospaced
- It's not a competition Mono. We ALL know the shortcomings of religion. But the transfer of ones belief to science and the idea that it will provide all the answers is horse shit. It's dogma is abundantly apparent. And that's just in this thread.Morning_star
- that it will provide all the answers is horse shit. It's dogma is abundantly apparent. And that's just in this thread.Morning_star
- haha, yet all the examples here are of science finding answers to things people thought impossiblemonospaced
- so, it gives me a huge reason to 'believe' it will continue to do so... and why not? it's never failed to find solutionsmonospaced
- Absolutely correct.Morning_star
- science has never purported to provide all the answers. religion does. all these quotes are subjective opinion with no backing facts.doesnotexist
- facts backing them. science is one thing and humans use it, they are not incoherently combined and inseparable.doesnotexist