8 Quotes by Warren Weaver

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    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.

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    We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

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    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.

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

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

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    Every new discovery of science is a further ‘revelation’ of the order which God has built into His universe.

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  • Author Warren Weaver
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    Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, “two doors leading to the same room.”

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