Limitless Knowledge Quotes
Ataturk as part of his radical reforms elevated secular teachers to a very high social status and moved science and engineering into the curriculum over the objections of traditionalists and Islamic fundamentalists, and he did this in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.
This statement as with others like it offended the religious authorities of the time as they claimed that they—-The Bible---knew everything important just as fundamentalist Muslims claim today about the Koran. So statements of this kind were considered heresy by some and still are.
There had been so many patents filed that some Senators felt there would be a diminishing need for the Patent Office as most things that could be invented were already invented.
Sir Humphry was a religious man, and yet he focused on one of the great differences between science and religion. The latter is presumed true and eternal by its faithful, while science is never such. No truth is eternal in science and rarely does a scientific “truth” last 100 years without modification, elaboration or additional complexity. This is one of the reasons that scientists make poor witnesses at Congressional hearings. They are never certain of anything if they are good scientists. Witnesses from other fields testify with much more certainty as they are motivated by self interest or ideology where doubt is unacceptable.
Referring to Woodrow Wilson and his 14 points he insisted upon for the World War I peace treaty.
