Sparks Commentary

“Rather, they cling to the dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook , which can be summar...

In 1993, the original “Jurassic Park” film brought chaos theory to a wide audience. In that movie, the character of  Ian Malcolm  predicts...

When the  first atomic bombs went off in 1945 , people witnessed the awesome power of the atom . It was so small that even microscopes fail...

The name of Albert Einstein has become synonymous with genius. More than any other person, he is seen as the quintessential smart guy, and n...

“It is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature: and that however wide any of them may seem to run f...

“It is indeed the opinion of Protagoras, who has another way of expressing it. Man, he says, is the measure of all things , of the existence...

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton, in a letter to Robert Hooke on 5 February 1675 Sir Is...

“I openly confess, the suggestion of David Hume was the very thing, which many years ago first awakened me from my dogmatic slumber , and ga...

“ Cogito, ergo sum .” (“I think, therefore I am.”) – René Descartes, in his works “Discourse on the Method” (1637) and “Principles of Philo...

What is science, and how does it work? Are scientific theories certain, or can they change with the evidence? These are the kinds of questio...

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche He was the most controversial thinker in the entire history of philo...

“Maths is the true language that the universe is written in  –  the key to understanding the world around us.” – Marcus du Sautoy, in th...

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -  Aristotle Open-mindedness i...