Warren Weaver famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.
-- Warren Weaver

#Discovery #Order #Revelations
Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room."
-- Warren Weaver

#Doors #Two #Rooms
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
-- Warren Weaver

#Ignorance #Views #Essentials
One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.
-- Warren Weaver

#Average #Understanding #Fundamentals
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
-- Warren Weaver

#Animal #People #Religion
Science is not gadgetry.
-- Warren Weaver

#Science
Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
-- Warren Weaver

#Pain #Airplane #Science

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.
The main subject in the Bible from the beginning of Genesis through Revelation is none other than Jesus.

Warren Weaver famous quotes

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