Lavoisier+ Corliss quote etc
File Lavoisier Corliss quote etc. 08:55 pm Tuesday, December 3 2002
I do not expect that my ideas will be adopted all at once; the human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view,and those who have looked at nature from one standpoint, during a portion of their life, adapt new ideas only with difficulty; it is, then, for time to confirm or to reject the opinions which I have brought forward.
Quote from Chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier from the book Makers of Chemistry by E. J. Holmyard reprint 1953
“Christianity in particular, with its central emphasis on the resurrection and eternal life, came into being first and foremost as a death - conquering religion.” Corliss Lamont in his book The Philosophy of Humanism. Page 82, seventh edition, @1990.
If Christianity is a death -- conquering religion, then the Identireplica Theory is a death conquering scientific theory and the basis for a death conquering science. -- Itoepistemology, mathematical itoepistemology, citoepistemology, vitoepistemology, physicontinuum epistemology, awarecontinuum epistemology,
“It is better to have nine ideas be completely disproved,and the tenth one spark a revolution than to have all ten be correct but unimportant discoveries that satisfy the skeptics.” Fransis Crick as quoted by V.S. Ramachandran in Skeptical Inquirer mag. Nov /Dec 2006 page 49
“The quest for respectability is the death of science.” Fransis Crick as quoted by V.S. Ramachandran in Skeptical Inquirer mag. Nov /Dec 2006 page 50
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself my dear Watson it take talent to recognize genius” Sherlock Holmes as quoted by V.S. Ramachandran in Skeptical Inquirer mag. Nov /Dec 2006 page 50
This quote by Bertrand Russell tends to sum up the materialist view of the finality of human death
That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his h-s, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life past the grave; that all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins - all these things if not beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1917), pp. 47-48.
However, materialism does not necessarily lead to this view, especially the view that nothing can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.In this book, through a materialist theory of mind, I have come to a different conclusion about mans mortality which gives mankind more alternates and creative possibilities than any religious dogma.
The universe that we live in may have allowed us the ability to control, modify, and change the most important aspects of being a person consciousness. The ability to tailer make consciousness to modify it to suit its (consciousnesses) purposes is a power that exceeds most purported powers of religious gods.
The improbable is extremely probable. -- Aristotle
There is a lot more that we don’t know now, than we didn’t know 27 years ago. And in science that is wonderful progress! Richard A. Muller
Richard Feynman described science as “what we have learned about how not to fool ourselves”
“It’s is a principle of science that if you dismiss something as impossible, you will not learn anything about it.” Victor Baker palaeohydrologists U of A. New Scientist page 49 April 21-27 2007
It is fair to say that nobody can prove anything concerning the nature of the soul and no scientific evidence supports the idea of the soul.
Jerome W. Elbert, Are Souls Real? P. 36.
We surely should not exclude-- antecedent to inquiry-- any claims to knowledge about nature or life, however radical they may at first appear. One cannot reject dogmatically new dimensions of experience or reality or refuse to investigate their authenticity. The history of science and philosophy is replete with unwarented, a priori rejectionism. Paul kurtz. The Transcendental Temptation. P. 23.
Is there any hope that a scientific, secular, or humanist culture can develop and prevail devoid of transcendental myths? This can only happen if in the place of the myths of salvation there are new ideals and goals sufficient in grandeur and power so that they can inspire and move us to greatness. Paul kurtz. The Transcendental Temptation. P. 482.
Perhaps some form of existence survives physical death. We must not be imprisoned by our existing linguistic categories, and we must be prepared to redifine them in light of new discoveries. Paul kurtz. The Transcendental Temptation. P. 405.
