This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is no such thing as ethical truth. However, those committed to humane-egalitarian ideals can make a truth-claim rare and precious: they can look reality and the truths of science in the face and find nothing that makes them flinch.
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Common Sense | Science | Sense |
It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.
Humanity | Technology |
Many of our culture's most important achievements in the arts, science, and technology were made by people who had breakthrough insights in dreams, visions, intuitive flashbacks, and altered states of consciousness. And yet our society generally discounts such experiences, sometimes even treating them as grounds for a diagnosis of mental illness.
Consciousness | Culture | Dreams | Important | People | Science | Society | Technology | Society |
Paul Dirac, fully Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Contrary to what many anti-intellectuals maintain, science is by nature a much more humble enterprise than any religion or other ideology. This must be so given the self-correcting mechanisms that are incorporated into the scientific process, regardless of the occasional failures of individual scientists.
Individual | Nature | Religion | Science | Self |
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. The existence of thought is as fundamental as for instance, the physiochemical equilibria of blood serum. The sepration of eh qualitative from the quantitative grew still wider when Descartes created the dualism of the body and soul. Then, the manifestations of the mind became inexplicable. The material was definitely isolated from the spiritual. Organic structures and physiological mechanisms assumed a far greater reality than thought, pleasure, sorrow and beauty. This error switched civilization to the road which led science to triumph and man to degradation.
Beauty | Body | Civilization | Error | Existence | Important | Man | Mind | Organic | Pleasure | Reality | Science | Sorrow | Soul | Thought | Thought |
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.
Art | Technology | Time |
Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity of wandering.
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Philosophy | Science | Truth |