Margherita Hack Quotes
1922–2013 Italy
Margherita Hack (12 June 1922 – 29 June 2013) was an Italian astrophysicist and scientific disseminator.
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In a certain sense, doing science is like hunting for the killer, with the scientist in the investigator's shoes.
It becomes fundamentalism to demand that evolutionism exclude the presence of God. One can be a believer and, based on observation, and believe in progress from brute matter to living beings.
Walking doesn't work for me, cycling is better. It's a less tiring means. Until recently I cycled often, deriving balance, desire to do and will.
I believe that killing any living creature is a bit like killing ourselves, and I see no difference between the pain of an animal and that of a human being.
When I see an animal, when I see its behavior, especially from an affective and instinctive point of view, I recognize myself. They are so similar to us.
Hypatia represented the symbol of the love for truth, for reason, for the science that had made Hellenic civilization great. With his sacrifice began that long dark period in which religious fundamentalism attempted to stifle reason.
The idea of an impersonal God will be more acceptable for reason, but it is still a loophole to explain what science cannot yet explain. But this way it's too comfortable, too easy.
An Eskimo has to eat fish, he has nothing else. And where there is misery they certainly don't have time to think about animal rights. But they are extreme cases.
Fear of pollution and an anti-scientific mentality push our mass media to often laughable ads. (p. 107)
As always in our country, when it has to be cut, culture and research are cut, evidently considered a useless luxury. (p. 48)
I think the brain is the soul, I don't believe in life after death, much less in a condominium version of heaven, where you can meet friends, enemies, relatives, acquaintances again.
At the root of it all is this misconception that you can't do without meat. We need to change our mentality, make it clear that we can live very well without it.
I would never eat it [the meat], because it seems truly atrocious to me to kill millions and millions and millions of animals... it is truly a massacre every day on earth.
Doubts about whether God can exist? Nobody. Never had great leaps towards religion, of any kind. I never believed in anything too much, then I believed absolutely nothing anymore.