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John Herschel | In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student’s first endeavours

“In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student’s first endeavours ought to be, to prepare his mind for the reception of truth, by dismissing, or at least loosening his hold on, all such crude and hastily adopted notions respecting the objects and relations he is about to examine as may tend to embarrass or mislead him.; and to strengthen himself, by something of an effort and a resolve, for the unprejudiced admission of any conclusion which shall appear to be supported by careful observation and logical argument, even…

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Fred Hoyle | They defend the old theories

“They defend the old theories by complicating things to the point of incomprehensibility.” Fred Hoyle | British Mathematician and Astronomer “Sie verteidigen die alten Theorien, indem sie die Dinge bis zur Unverständlichkeit verkomplizieren.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Prof. Steven Weinberg | The International Space Station is an orbital turkey

“The International Space Station is an orbital turkey….No important science has come out of it. I could almost say no science has come out of it. And I would go beyond that and say that the whole manned spaceflight program, which is so enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value.” Prof. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Price for physics “Die Internationale Raumstation ist ein orbitaler Schrotthaufen….Sie hat keine wichtigen wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse hervorgebracht. Ich könnte fast sagen, dass keine Wissenschaft aus ihr hervorgegangen ist. Und ich würde sogar noch weiter gehen und…

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Walter van der Kamp | Since Galileo science has shed logical proofs in favour of plausibility

“Actually neither this Galileo, nor his mentor Copernicus, had a shred of truly tangible and unequivocal evidence for their heliocentric belief – and well do historians, astronomers, and philosophers of science know it! As I recently found it succinctly expressed in a research paper “Since Galileo science has shed logical proofs in favour of plausibility.” [Chris Biebricher: ‘Evolutionary Research,’ in Vincent Brummer, Interpreting the Universe as Creation. Kampen Kok Pharos, 1991, p.93.] Indeed, by this “scientific method” of adding plausible explanations to plausible explanations astronomy has arrived at the present…

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Sir Fred Hoyle | So, does the earth spin?

So, does the earth spin? The late Sir Fred Hoyle, once accepted as one of the world’s leading astrophysicists, affirms the current position of science in regard to the long held claim that it does: “We can talk with precision of a body as spinning around relative to something or another, but there is no such thing as absolute spin: the Earth is not spinning to those of us who live on its surface and our point of view is as good as anyone else’s – but no better.” (F….

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Paul Feyerabend | the establishment of the heliocentric worldview

“There are numerous sociological and historical case studies describing how opinions are established as “knowledge” in societies. For example, Paul Feyerabend explained in 1975 that the establishment of the heliocentric worldview was not based on new discoveries, but on a clever propaganda strategy of Galileo Galilei. According to Feyerabend, the representatives of the geocentric world view “did not recognize the propaganda value of predictions and dramatic shows, nor did they make use of the intellectual and social power of the newly created classes. They lost because they did not take…

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Nikola Tesla | his mind had to free itself from the influence of delusive appearances

“The greatest triumphs of man were those in which his mind had to free itself from the influence of delusive appearances.[…] An unalterable rotational velocity thru all phases of planetary evolution is manifestly impossible. […] The truth is, the so-called “axial rotation” of the moon is a phenomenon deceptive alike to the eye and mind and devoid of physical meaning. […] The moon does rotate, not on its own, but about an axis passing thru the center of the earth, the true and only one.” Nikola Tesla “Die größten Triumphe…

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John Hampden | We know this by patient and long continued investigations

“We know this by patient and long continued investigations – the surface of water is a LEVEL SURFACE. This is the key which is unlocking the minds of the people and letting in a flood of light upon the question of the shape of the earth. We know consequently that the surface of earth is a plane surface and that the earth itself can NOT be a globe.” John Hampden “Wir wissen dies durch geduldige und langanhaltende Untersuchungen – die Wasseroberfläche ist eine ebenmäßige OBERFLÄCHE. Dies ist der Schlüssel, der…

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John George Abizaid | The earth is flat and stationary

“The earth is flat and stationary, while the sun, moon and stars are in constant motion” This is the Enlightenment of the World John George Abizaid | Creator “New correct map of the flat surface, stationary earth” “Die Erde ist flach und steht still, während Sonne, Mond und Sterne in ständiger Bewegung sind” Das ist die Aufklärung der Welt Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Wernher von Braun | the last card is the alien card

“And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie” Wernher von Braun,1977 (cité par Carol Rosin) “Und denk daran, Carol, die letzte Karte ist die Alien-Karte. Wir werden weltraumgestützte Waffen gegen Außerirdische bauen müssen, und das alles ist eine Lüge.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links “Im Sommer 1977 erhielt die Luft- und Raumfahrtmanagerin Dr. Carol Rosin auf dem Sterbebett ein Geständnis ihres Chefs und Mentors Wernher Von Braun, des erfolgreichen Raketeningenieurs, der…

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Nikolaus Kopernikus | So far as hypotheses are concerned

“So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.” Nikolaus Kopernikus “Denn in der Tat möge, was die Hypothesen betrifft, niemand von der Astronomie irgend etwas Sicheres erwarten, da sie für sich nicht in der Lage ist, dies zu leisten, damit er nicht, wenn er für einen anderen Zweck zustande Gebrachtes als wahr auffaßt, törichter von dieser…

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Arthur Eddington | The problem of the source of a star’s energy

“The problem of the source of a star’s energy will be considered, by a process of exhaustion we are driven to conclude that the only possible source of a star’s energy is subatomic yet it must be confessed that the only hypothesis shows little disposition to accommodate itself to the detailed requirements of observation, and a critic might count up a large number of fatal objections.” Arthur Eddington | (The Internal Constitution of the Stars (1926)) “Das Problem der Energiequelle eines Sterns wird angesprochen werden; durch einen Prozeß der Aufzehrung…

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Carl Sagan | Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreshadowing of an America in the time of my children or grandchildren – when the United States is a service and information economy; when Almost all major manufacturing industries have moved to other countries; when terrible technological powers are in the hands of too few, and no one representing the public interest can understand the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agenda. Lost or deliberately questioned by those…

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Max Planck | Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind

“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.” Max Planck | ( Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck ) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 “Jeder, der sich ernsthaft mit wissenschaftlicher Arbeit irgendeiner Art beschäftigt hat, weiß, dass über dem Eingangstor des Tempels…

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Wernher von Braun | likelihood of a successful mission to the Moon

“It is commonly believed that man will fly directly from the earth to the moon, but to do this, we would require a vehicle of such gigantic proportions that it would prove an economic impossibility. It would have to develop sufficient speed to penetrate the atmosphere and overcome the earth’s gravity and, having traveled all the way to the moon, it must still have enough fuel to land safely and make the return trip to earth. Furthermore, in order to give the expedition a margin of safety, we would not…

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Lawrence Krauss | we are truly the center of the universe

“But when you look at CMB map (Cosmic Microwave Background), you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That’s crazy. We’re looking out at the whole universe. There’s no way there should be a correlation of structure with our motion of the earth around the sun – the plane of the earth around the sun – the ecliptic. That would say we are truly…

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Albert Einstein | The struggle, so violent in the early days of science

“The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, “the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves,” or “the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest,” would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.” Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta “Der in der Frühzeit der Wissenschaft so heftige Kampf zwischen den Ansichten von…

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Alan Hirshfeld | the pendulum of belief had swung irreversibly to the Copernican side

“In Newton’s day, the Ptolemaic system and the Keplerian version of the Copernican system were taught side by side in the universities of the world. But the pendulum of belief had swung irreversibly to the Copernican side. In the minds of most scientists, the heliocentric universe had become fact…Yet there remained a crucial missing element in what was otherwise a complete and compelling picture of the universe: Not one shred of indisputable observational proof existed that the Earth moved through space.Here then was the holy grail of many an astronomer….

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | no longer invoke your senses to judge what makes sense

“So, what you learn when you study science in general, but astrophysics especially, is that you no longer invoke your senses to judge what makes sense, or you no longer invoke your personal philosophies to judge what should be true. The universe is what it is, and it really doesn’t care about your senses.” Neil deGrasse Tyson “Was man also lernt, wenn man Wissenschaft im Allgemeinen und Astrophysik im Besonderen studiert, ist, dass man sich nicht mehr auf seine Sinne beruft, um zu beurteilen, was Sinn macht, oder dass man…

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Lincoln Barnett | No physical experiment

“No physical experiment ever proved that the earth actually is in motion.” Lincoln Barnett | The Universe and Dr. Einstein, 2nd rev. edition, 1957, p. 73. “Kein physisches Experiment hat jemals bewiesen, dass die Erde tatsächlich in Bewegung ist.” Dieses Zitat stammt aus dem Buch “The Universe and Dr. Einstein” von Lincoln Barnett, das 1957 in zweiter überarbeiteter Auflage veröffentlicht wurde. Es ist ein interessantes Zitat, da es nahelegt, dass die Rotation und die Bewegung der Erde im Sonnensystem bzw. in der Milchstraße nicht durch direkte Experimente nachgewiesen wurden. In…

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Albert Einstein | I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track

“You imagine that I look back on my life’s work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.” Albert Einstein “Sie können sich vorstellen, dass ich mit ruhiger Zufriedenheit auf mein Lebenswerk zurückblicke. Doch aus der Nähe sieht es ganz anders aus. Es gibt kein einziges Konzept, von dem ich überzeugt bin, dass es Bestand haben wird, und ich…

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Albert Einstein | The struggle, so violent in the early days of science

“The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, “the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves,” or “the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest,” would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.” Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta “Der in der Frühzeit der Wissenschaft so heftige Kampf zwischen den Ansichten von…

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Fred Hoyle | we can take either the Earth or the Sun

“we can take either the Earth or the Sun, or any other point for that matter, as the center of the solar system.” Fred Hoyle “Wir können entweder die Erde oder die Sonne oder irgendeinen anderen Punkt als Zentrum des Sonnensystems annehmen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Fred Hoyle | Today we cannot say that the Copernican theory is ‘right’

“Today we cannot say that the Copernican theory is ‘right’ and the Ptolemaic theory ‘wrong’ in any meaningful physical sense.” Sir Fred Hoyle | was a British astronomer and mathematician who was also a writer. “Heute können wir nicht sagen, dass die kopernikanische Theorie “richtig” und die ptolemäische Theorie “falsch” ist, und zwar in keinem sinnvollen physikalischen Sinne.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Fred Hoyle | Science today is locked into paradigms

“Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down.” Sir Fred Hoyle | was a British astronomer and mathematician who was also a writer. “Die Wissenschaft ist heute in Paradigmen gefangen. Jeder Weg ist durch falsche Überzeugungen blockiert, und wenn man heute versucht, etwas in einer Zeitschrift zu veröffentlichen, stößt man auf ein Paradigma, und die Redakteure lehnen es…

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Brian Cox | There is absolutely no basis at all for thinking the world is flat

“There is absolutely no basis at all for thinking the world is flat. Nobody in human history, as far as I know, has thought the world was flat. The Greeks measured the radius of the Earth. I cannot conceive of a reason why anybody would think the world is flat. There are interesting bits of physics that tell you you live on a spinning planet and one of them is called the Coriolis force, which is the force that’s responsible for causing storm systems to rotate on the planet. So…

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Salviati | there is no limit to my astonishment when I reflect that

“You wonder that there are so few followers of the Pythagorean opinion [that the earth moves] while I am astonished that there have been any up to this day who have embraced and followed it. Nor can I ever sufficiently admire the outstanding acumen of those who have taken hold of this opinion and accepted it as true: they have, through sheer force of intellect, done such violence to their own senses as to prefer what reason told them over that which sensible experience plainly showed them to be the…

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Fred Hoyle | Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available…a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.“ Fred Hoyle (britische Astronom) “Wenn Menschen Bilder aus dem Weltraum von der Erde sehen, wird das Leben auf der Erde nie mehr so sein, wie es einmal war.“ Variante; “Sobald ein Foto der Erde, das von außen aufgenommen wurde, verfügbar ist, wird eine neue Idee, die so mächtig ist wie keine andere in der Geschichte, freigesetzt werden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | let the dark lord Satan show you the way

“Some have asked me where scientists turn after science has yielded no clear solution. I tell these people what my grandfather Charles Darwin told me: roll back your eyes, contort your body, and let the dark lord Satan show you the way” Neil deGrasse Tyson (attributed) “Manche haben mich gefragt, wohin sich Wissenschaftler wenden, wenn die Wissenschaft keine klare Lösung gefunden hat. Ich sage diesen Leuten, was mein Großvater Charles Darwin mir gesagt hat: Rollt eure Augen zurück, verdreht euren Körper und lasst euch vom dunklen Lord Satan alles zeigen”…

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David McGowan | The Moon Landing is essentially the adult version of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

“[The Moon Landing] is essentially the adult version of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. What primarily motivates them is fear. But it is not the lie itself that scares people; it is what that lie says about the world around us and how it really functions. For if NASA was able to pull off such an outrageous hoax before the entire world, and then keep that lie in place for four decades, what does that say about the control of the information we receive? What does…