Omniscopic: November 2006

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The Weepy Gene

What would it take to make an atheist weep?

Sometimes even the most hard-core, objective scientists slip up and show some soul. When they do, perhaps it is the little things they say that reveal their inner motivations.

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary ethologist who wrote "The Selfish Gene" and many other landmark science books. His latest book, "The God Delusion" has garnered him considerable critisicm from the religious right.

Visit the Richard Dawkins Website for more information.

More to come on this fascinating conference from The Science Network.

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If you're wondering WHY, two things.

1. Speaking about science, Carl Sagan once said "When you're in love you want to tell the world."

And 2. the Carolina Wren teaches me a lesson. The smaller you are, the louder you need to sing

Meaningful things I hear when needed:

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.
Ricky Fitts, American Beauty

You've got to learn to live...
...with what you can't rise above
-Bruce Springsteen, Tunnel of Love

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain...
So Hit me with good music
- Bob Marley, Trenchtown Rock

The only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,
mad to be saved, desirous of everything
at the same time, the ones who never yawn
or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn,
like fabulous yellow roman candles...
- Jack Kerouac thx mary

"This will sound like jibberish...
...but I think I may be living a tragedy"
- Harold Crick, Stranger than Fiction

"Un peu de science éloigne de Dieu, beaucoup de science y ramène." Translation: "A little science keeps you far from god, a lot brings you back to him"
- Some French Guy

The sun is out. The Sky is blue. It's Beautiful, and so are you. Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?
- The Beatles The White Album

The way a crow shook down on me, the dust of snow from a Hemlock tree. Has gave my heart a change of mood, and saved some part of a day I had rued.
- Robert Frost Winter Reflection

If I could talk I'd tell you. If I could smile I'd let you know. You are far and away my most imaginary friend.
- The Lemonheads If I could talk

"Nothing in Biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution."
- T. Dobzhansky Geneticist

"Rich, the best you can do, is usually good enough."
- Leonard Trubia Surfer & Friend

To see a world in a grain of sand... and a heaven in a wildlflower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand...
and eternity in an hour
- William Blake, Poet & Scientist"Auguries of innocence"

Not only will I end the war, but also the mentality that brought us to war."
- Barack Obama Democratic Presidential Debate Jan. 2008

"My, my. How the world so dearly loves a cage."
- Maude, "Harold and Maude"

MeTube cellphone videos (click words):

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Oh Happy Day!

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I know it's hard to see.
You try to shoot a manatee
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