chasehwa.blogg.se - The shores of the cosmic ocean

a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. That's a clear prescription for disaster. We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. Quotes The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

1.10 The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006).

1.9 Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997).

1.8 The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995).

1.7 Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994).

1.6 Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update).

Science uses its own language to write sonatas of praise to the numinous, the language of discovery known as mathematics. Science has its own poetry and psalms that glorify the wonders of the cosmos.

To quote Carl Sagan “Science is not only compatible with spirituality it is a profound source of spirituality”. Yet, science, with a capital “S” is a human endeavour that resonates with our deepest yearnings to understand the reason and purpose of our existence.

The wellsprings of some of our deepest existential questions were once the chief concerns of religion and philosophy. Science can trace its origins to its metaphysical beginnings in ancient Ionia. In fact we should expand the definition of the humanities to encompass science.

But, look at science as a separate endeavour outside the human norm. For a very long time we have looked at science as something outside the realm of everyday human concern. Cosmos presented the whole of the scientific enterprise as a very human pursuit.