Author of quotes: The world

For those looking for a comforting belief in the afterlife, it's time to do cosmology, quantum gravity, physics of elementary particles and transfinite formulas.

To the nature of science applies in the same respect, even with reverence. When we attain peace, we rejoice, feeling of its unity, the merger (even for a moment) with the grandeur of the cosmos.

With full control over the media and the police, it turns out it is possible to rewrite the memories of hundreds of millions of people - it will take just one generation.

Books accompany us everywhere. They are patient, willing to wait, if we do not immediately comprehend, allow multiple units to go to the hard places, not criticize. Books - the key to understanding the world and life in a democratic society.

If we assure ourselves that our beliefs are absolutely correct and others ' wrong, what we're looking for good, and all the other evil that the Lord of the Universe speaks exclusively with us and never with followers of other faiths, what wrong even to doubt once and for all established dogmas or ask questions that our main duty is to believe and obey, the witch hunt will resume wearing a new mask again and again until the people on Earth.

We are all a product of his century, and each of us is flawed. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future? Some of the customs of our century following generations will surely consider barbaric.

Obvious fact on our tormented little planet: torture, hunger, criminal irresponsibility of the government is much broader common in tyrannical States than in democratic. Why? Because tyrants do not fear that their evil deeds will shift, and the democratic government have to rule with caution.

A very good example is Russia. The tsarist regime encouraged religious superstition, ruthlessly stamping out the skeptical scientific thought, leaving only domesticated professionals. Under communism, the systematic persecution and religion, and pseudoscience, with the exception of the main superstitions - state ideology, elevated to the rank of religion. This ideology is called scientific, but the science she was as far as any mystical cult. Critical thinking was considered dangerous, he was left in the lot of professionals in certain hermetically isolated areas of knowledge, but in schools this approach was not taught, for skeptical thought students were punished. As a result, many residents of post-Communist Russia look upon scientists with suspicion. Cover with the pot broken, and spilled accumulated over many years of ethnic hatred.

Fanatics are much more likely to commit crimes and torment the children in the name of God, of Jesus, of Mahomed, than for Satan. To many this statement will not like, but he didn't argue.

Annoying claim of science to put a limit to our capabilities, even in theory. Who said that we are not able to exceed the speed of light? They used to say that the speed of sound couldn't handle what? Who will prevent us to measure simultaneously both the position and the motion of an electron, when the come up with accurate enough instruments? Why don't we invent a perpetual motion machine "of the first kind" (generating more energy than it consumes) or "second kind" (which never stops)? Who dares restrain the human mind and ingenuity? Nature - that's who. In fact, very brief and yet comprehensive statement of the laws of nature, how the universe works, it comes down to this deny list. Characteristically, pseudoscience and superstition, no restrictions are recognized: "all things are possible". Inexhaustible budget - that only those who believe that, usually will be disappointed, feeling that they were brought and dumped.

Scientists sometimes reproach the evil consequences of their discoveries, and sometimes cast just for the fact that they tried to warn about these effects.

The inspector General of the CIA in 1995, said: "Absolute secrecy corrupts absolutely".

Multilateral British scientist, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, who among his many achievements was the founder of population genetics, proposed a fundamentally different version of immortality. He imagined a distant future when the stars will fade and the universe will be filled with cold rarefied gas. Will have to wait a long time, but in the end in gas density fluctuations will appear. After a huge period of time the fluctuations will accumulate enough to restore the Universe, such as ours. In an infinitely ancient Universe such transformation occur repeatedly, Haldane puts it. So, in an infinitely ancient Universe, which have passed through countless number of configurations of galaxies, stars, planets, life forms, will once again the same planet Earth, where we will be reunited with loved ones. I will meet with the parents and will introduce them to the grandchildren they have never seen. And this happens not once but an infinite number of times.

All people belong to the same species Homo sapiens, which in Latin sounds optimistic about a reasonable Man.