Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to...
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble...
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven not the way the heavens go.
Nature is relentless and unchangeable and it is indifferent as to whether...
The sun with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it can...
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with...
If I were again beginning my studies I would follow the advice of Plato and...
Facts which at first seem improbable will even on scant explanation drop...
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I...
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics...
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are...
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics...
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined...
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the...
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized...
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason...
I do love science fiction but it's not really a genre unto itself it always...
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat there is no consensus of...