There’s a danger of some of the best people saying, ‘I don’t want a career in science.’
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Bringing a candle to a neighbor’shome who had their power cut off,is far holier than lightinga thousand candles in the church.If you bring electricity to a marginalizedcommunity with a simple solar power kit,it’s a far greater scientific achievementthan the gargantuan glories of the LHC.There is no greater scientific achievementthan simple science solving big problems.There is no greater holiness than tradingin the bible for a simple act of kindness.
Scientific communities persistently overlooked an elementary weakness:If scientific reasoning is at issue, it cannot decide this issue.
In science … discovery can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science – steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains – none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century’s attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
The essential fact which emerges … is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.
I’m one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony God’s blessing, but because, I am enlightened by my own intelligence.
If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.
I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world. There was in numbers and their relation something absolute, certain, not to be questioned, beyond doubt.
God is your motivation! Okay.Science is your motivation! Okay.What do you do with that,how do you lift the world!What’s your gift to the life most lay!
Evolution built advanced minds not once, but at least twice, gifting them not only to mammals and their kin, but also to cephalopods, and especially to the animal at the apex of ocean intelligence: the octopus. These are animals so unlike us that most aliens we imagine in our fantasies about outer space have more in common with humans. But there is no denying their sentience. I believe the first aliens we encounter will rise to greet us from the sea.
Single cells speak clearly—if you listen to their spatial language.
Rich or poor, living in a trusting society simply makes people happier.
Mustapha Mond shook hands with all three of them; but it was to the Savage that he addressed himself. So you don’t much like civilization, Mr. Savage, he said.
The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called model agnosticism and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, The map is not the territory. Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as The menu is not the meal.
Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were possible to undiscover nuclear fission, I would be very happy to undiscover it, because of the risks that it puts us all under.
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For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It’s, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one’s face.
Nothing makes a woman beauty than her belief that she is beauty.
The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day.[Describing C.P. Snow’s observations on the neglect of technical education.]
Governments can make a greater effort to encourage computer science education, especially among young girls, racial minorities, and other groups whose perspectives have been underrepresented in AI.
The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There’s an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.
We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical reason”—pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor.
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn’t mean that there’s no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for ‘the white crow’ is science’s principal task.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.
The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.
The boundary is not where one thing ends and another begins, but where something else becomes possible.
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father’s footsteps.
Marxism has won its historic significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because, far from rejecting the most valuable achievements of the bourgeois epoch, it has, on the contrary, assimilated and refashioned everything of value in more than two thousand years of the development of human thought and culture
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity – gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or anyone connected with that science.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Il faut regarder la configuration ensemble pour déterminer le comportement des parties et non l’inverse.
All science asks is to employ the same levels of skepticism we use in buying a used car or in judging the quality of analgesics or beer from their television commercials.
All cults foster a class of high priests who speak of human possibility and progress in obscure, specialized jargon. They talk of miracles. They promise a healthy, long and wonderful life, one where human suffering will be vanquished and peace and happiness will prevail. Jesus makes this possible for fundamentalists; science makes it possible for the new atheists.
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
What if the mysterious unity behind physics… was the same unity behind faith?
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.
Galileo Galilei made an important contribution to the structure understanding and movement of the Earth, where humans did not realize that his courage at that time had an impact which helped lay strategic infrastructure points in order to maintain stability at the end of time.
The Big Bang is not the explosion of the Absolute Source into emptiness but rather the silent explosion of emptiness into the Absolute Source.
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.
Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch doesn’t work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us.
Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire’s apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
It is time to do a major rethinking of the recommended vaccine schedule, and at what age which vaccines should be given to maximize protection of our children from contagious diseases, while also protecting them from adverse effects from the vaccines.
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.