{"quotes":[{"text":"Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For instance, Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as well established as general relativity. Yet how many physicists, while arguing for the truth of Einsteinian physics, will claim that general relativity is as well established as Darwin’s theory? Zero.","author":"William A. Dembski","tags":["darwinism","einstein","evolution","general-relativity","hard-science","macro-evolution","macroevolution","science","scientific-theories","scientific-theory","speciation"],"id":51612,"author_id":"William+A.+Dembski"},{"text":"I independently produce scientific advancements to share with everyone, and that is over seven billion people!","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["advance","advancement","advancements","all","billion","everyone","independant","independently","people","produce","scientific","scientific-discovery","scientific-inquiry","scientific-research","scientific-theory","seven","share","share","shared-experiences"],"id":54623,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"First, the idea of the multiverse is essentially the fantasy of preserving perfect information. One of the hard things to deal with in life is the fact that you destroy potential information whenever you make a decision. You could even say that's essentially what regret is: a profound problem of incomplete information. If you select one thing on a diner's menu, you can't know what it would have been like to taste other things on it, right then, right there. When you marry one person, you give up the possibility of knowing what it would have been like to have married any number of others. But if the multiverse exists, you can at least imagine there's another version of you who's eating that other thing you thought about ordering, or who's married to that other man you only went on two dates with. Even if you'll never see all the information for yourself, at least you'll be able to tell yourself that it's. ","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["alternate-universes","dexter-palmer","multiverse","regret","science","scientific-theory","time-travel","version-control"],"id":55265,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"You could consider the idea of the multiverse, and think of it as something like a tree—that is, the universe we live in is one of an uncountable number of branches of possible universes, created by random chance and the decisions of sentient beings. So, for instance, when I rang you up in the morning, there was a possible future universe in which you answered the phone, and another in which you did not, and by answering the phone you put us in one universe and not the other. In that instance the time traveler doesn't just move from the future to the past and back to the future: he moves down one branch of the universe, toward the root that's back at the beginning of time, and back up another branch.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["alternate-universe","dexter-palmer","multiverse","scientific-theory","time-travel","version-control"],"id":78020,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.","author":"Max Planck","tags":["albert-einstein","einstein","light","quantum-mechanics","quantum-theory","science","scientific-theory","theory-of-relativity"],"id":91190,"author_id":"Max+Planck"},{"text":"What we are proposing,' Alicia said, 'is that the laws of physics are such that causality violation is subject to a form of version control, one that prevents a forking of history. That instead of causality violation creating an alternate universe, one version of history is outright overwritten by another. One past is replaced with another future. Which means that the memories of the past of the people in that future are replaced with memories of a different past.'Carson interrupted. 'Including the memories of any—''Purely hypothetical—''—time travelers.''So take our time traveler from the traditional story,' Carson continued. 'He leaves his utopian future for the past. He kills the butterfly. The Magna Carta is never written. He returns to the dystopian future that his misstep created. But he doesn't see it as a dystopia: he sees it as home, the world he grew up in, the world he left to go back in time. Because he doesn't remember that first future, and has no other world to which he can compare this one. Maybe he even sees it as a utopia. Maybe everyone does. Maybe everyone in this dark place believes that they live in the best of all possible worlds.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["alternate-universe","dexter-palmer","physics","scientific-theory","time-travel","version-control"],"id":94357,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.","author":"Antoine Lavoisier","tags":["chemistry","discovery","french","invention","oxygen-theory","posterity","science","scientific-theory","scientist","theory"],"id":115263,"author_id":"Antoine+Lavoisier"},{"text":"The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth's crust. The theory that the earth acts as a great reservoir for electricity may be placed in the physicist's waste-paper basket, with phlogiston, the materiality of light, and other old-time hypotheses.","author":"William Henry Preece","tags":["discovery","electrical-engineer","electricity","invention","light","science","scientific-theory","telephone","theory"],"id":156520,"author_id":"William+Henry+Preece"},{"text":"Memorizing and regurgitating are not science. Real science is a constant investigation of the unknown.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["inspirational","inspiring","science","science","science","scientific-discovery","scientific-inquiry","scientific-research","scientific-revolution","scientific-theory"],"id":172908,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":". . .A scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. So it is meaningless to ask: which is real, 'real' or 'imaginary' time? It is simply a matter of which is the more useful description.","author":"Stephen Hawking","tags":["science","scientific-theory"],"id":189533,"author_id":"Stephen+Hawking"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}