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W. Winckler | As an engineer of many years standing

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“As an engineer of many years standing, I saw that this absurd allowance is only permitted in school books. No engineer would dream of allowing anything of the kind. I have projected many miles of railways and many more of canals and the allowance has not even been thought of, much less allowed for. This allowance for curvature means this – that it is 8” for the first mile of a canal, and increasing at the ratio by the square of the distance in miles; thus a small navigable canal…

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David Wardlaw Scott | Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things

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“Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things, that the world is a great globe revolving around the Sun, and the story is repeated continuously, year by year, till they reach maturity, at which time they generally become so absorbed in other matters as to be indifferent as to whether the teaching be true or not, and, as they hear of nobody contradicting it, they presume that it must be the correct thing, if not to believe at least to…

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Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us

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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan “Eine der traurigsten Lehren der Geschichte ist diese: Wenn wir lange genug beschwindelt wurden, neigen wir dazu, jeden Beweis des Schwindels abzulehnen. Wir…

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Jesuit Guy Consolmagno | Aliens for their salvation

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“Very soon the nations will look to Aliens for their salvation.” “contemporary societies will soon see extraterrestrials as the saviors of mankind” “Jesus might be the son of a star child.” Jesuit Guy Consolmagno (Chief Astronomer of the Vaticans) “Sehr bald werden die Nationen ihre Rettung bei den Aliens suchen.” “zeitgenössische Gesellschaften schon bald Außerirdische als Erlöser der Menschheit ansehen werden” Quelle “Jesus könnte der Sohn eines Sternenkindes sein.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Jesuit Pater Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti | information coming from another world

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“Very soon we will not have to deny our Christian faith…but there is information coming from another world, and once it is confirmed it is going to require a re-reading of the Gospel as we know it.” Jesuit Father Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti | Astronomer of the Vatican and leading Jesuit theologian and Professor of Principles of Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome (former Prelate of Opus Dei) “Schon sehr bald werden wir zwar nicht unseren christlichen Glauben leugnen müssen, jedoch gibt es Informationen von einer…

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Michio Kaku | in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method

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“In Science, we always say that you make observations you have a theory you make more observations and it’s a very very tedious process… WRONG! Nobody that I know of in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method. In our field, it’s by the seat of your pants, it’s leaps of logic, it’s GUESSWORK.” Dr. Michio Kaku “In der Wissenschaft wird immer gesagt dass man Beobachtungen macht, man hat eine Theorie man macht Beobachtungen und es ist ein sehr sehr langweiliger Prozess. Falsch! Niemand den ich kenne in meiner Umfeld…

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Michio Kaku | the largest mismatch between theory and experiment

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“Usually in science, if we’re off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, something’s wrong with the theory. We’re off by a factor of 10! However, in cosmology, we’re off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is one with 100 and 20 zeroes after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science.” Michio Kaku “Wenn wir in der Wissenschaft um einen Faktor 2 oder 10 daneben liegen, nennen wir das normalerweise…

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Papst Pius XII | Big Bang – Creation – Science

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“In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial ‘Fiat lux’ Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies … Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists. Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said

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“I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said, he said; Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Neil deGrasse Tyson “Ich bin ein Fan dessen, was Mark Twain sagte, er sagte; Holen Sie sich zuerst Ihre Fakten, und dann können Sie sie so weit verzerren, wie Sie möchten” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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

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“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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Don Pettit | The only limit to human future is in our own imagination

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“I’d go to the moon in a Nanosecond, but the Problem is that we no longer have that technology to do that anymore, we used to have it, but we destroyed it and it’s a painful process to build it back again, but going to Mars should be one of the next series of steps that humans do. The first step should be going back to the Moon for a number of technical reasons and exploration reasons. And then after that Mars, maybe high orbit in Venus atmosphere maybe going…

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Elon Musk | you can tell it’s real because it looks so fake

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“I think it looks so ridiculous and impossible, you can tell it’s real because it looks so fake, honestly. We’d have way better CGI if it was fake. The colors all look kind of weird in space. There’s no atmospheric occlusion; everything’s too crisp. It’s just literally a normal car in space — I kind of like the absurdity of that, it’s kind of silly and fun, but I think that silly, fun things are important … I think the imagery of it is something that’s going to get people…

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Nikola Tesla | the secrets of the universe

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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Nikola Tesla “Wenn Sie die Geheimnisse des Universums finden wollen, denken Sie in Begriffen von Energie, Frequenz und Schwingung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Alexander Unzicker | Physics has lost its grip on the ground

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“Physics has lost its grip on the ground. For every anomaly, scientists pull a new parameter out of a hat instead of trying to understand the underlying principles. They have accumulated more than 30 “natural constants”: all values that no one can explain.” Alexander Unzicker (Physiker) “Der Physik ist die Bodenhaftung verloren gegangen. Für jede Anomalie zaubern Wissenschaftler einen neuen Parameter aus dem Hut, statt zu versuchen, die zugrunde liegenden Prinzipien zu verstehen. Über 30 „Naturkonstanten“ haben sie so angesammelt: alles Werte, die keiner erklären kann.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Werner Heisenberg | This mathematical scheme had for me a magical attraction

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“I found in the formulae. which were the results of my collaboration with Kramers, a mathematics which in a certain sense worked automatically, independently of all physical models. This mathematical scheme had for me a magical attraction, and I was fascinated by the thought that perhaps here could be seen the first threads of an enormous net of deep-set relations.” Werner Heisenberg (1901 bis 1976 | erhielt im Jahr 1932 den Nobelpreis für Physik für seine Arbeiten zur Begründung der Quantenmechanik. Heisenberg studierte Physik, Mathematik, Chemie und Astronomie in München…

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Lawrence Krauss | asking the right experimental questions

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“We do not know whether we are on the right track and whether we are even asking the right experimental questions. But we have no choice but to continue with all our might.” Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (ist ein US-amerikanischer theoretischer Physiker, der sich insbesondere mit Kosmologie beschäftigt. Er ist Autor mehrerer Bestseller, darunter The Physics of Star Trek. “Wir wissen nicht, ob wir auf dem richtigen Weg sind und ob wir überhaupt die richtigen experimentellen Fragen stellen. Doch es bleibt uns nichts anderes übrig, als mit aller Kraft weiterzumachen.” Nützliche…

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George Bernard Shaw | In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat

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“In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.” George Bernard Shaw “Im Mittelalter glaubten die Leute die Erde sein flach, wofür…

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

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“[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…

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

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

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

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“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…