This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Apela Colorado, aka Pamela Colorado
The data from indigenous science are not used to control the forces of nature; instead, the data tell us ways and means of accommodating nature... The purpose of indigenous science is to maintain balance... Indigenous science is holistic, drawing on all senses including the spiritual and psychic realm. Indigenous science collapses time ands space, with the result that our fields of participation and inquiry extend into and overlap with past and present.
Balance | Control | Inquiry | Means | Nature | Past | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Science | Space | Time |
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe; and science struck the thrones of earth and heaven, which shook, but fell not; and the harmonious mind poured itself forth in all-prophetic song; and music lifted up the listening spirit until it walked, except from mortal care, Godlike, o’er the clear billows of sweet sound.
Care | Earth | Heaven | Listening | Man | Mind | Mortal | Music | Science | Sound | Speech | Spirit | Thought | Universe |
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Error | Religion | Science | Superstition |
Is not prayer also a study of truth – a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations and see it in the light of thought, shall at the same time kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation.
God | Learning | Light | Man | Object | Prayer | Science | Soul | Study | Thought | Time | Truth | Will | God |
Rollo May, fully Rollo Reese May
There remains a chasm between truth and reality. And the crucial question which confronts us in psychology and other aspects of the science of man is precisely this chasm between what is abstractly true and what is existentially real for the given living person.
On the science of beauty everywhere - Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forthe and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
Beauty | Friend | God | Man | Mind | Mortal | Reality | Science | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Beauty | God |
Arthur Eddington, fully Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you look at the results which science has brought in its train, you will find them to consist almost wholly in elements of mischief. See how much belongs to the word 'Explosion' alone, of which the ancients knew nothing.
Thomas Henry Huxley, aka T.H. Huxley and Darwin's Bulldog
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
Birth | Death | Science | Superstition |
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish a framework on which the spirit may rise.
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Art | Ends | Hypothesis | Philosophy | Science |
Timothy Dwight, fully Timothy Dwight IV
Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content; has learned the science of being happy; and possesses the alchemic stone which changes every metal into gold.