George Lucas Quotes

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Science is not wisdom.

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.