There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Basically morphic fields are fields of habit and theyve been set up through habits of thought through habits of activity and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.