Nancy Pearcey Quotes

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Separate the story - your story - from facts.