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“As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake.”
“He knew that he was very near achieving the General Temporal Theory that the Ioti wanted so badly for their spaceflight and their prestige. He knew also that he had not achieved it and might never ...”
“Well written and easy to enjoy." executive director of Association of Science and Technology Museums”
“And every science, when we understand it not as an instrument of power and domination but as an adventure in knowledge pursued by our species across the ages, is nothing but this harmony, more or l...”
“Like Energy and Mass, Life is also constant all over the universe and keeps changing its forms within the realm of universal requirements. Just like transient Energy & Mass, there are transient for...”
“Here and there amidst the wreckage, she found advanced devices that more or less still functioned. With one exception, shed revealed these to Johanna and then to Woodcarver, andafter it was founded...”
“We are gaining the knowledge science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.”
“There is no greater virtue than to teach the many what you have been blessed to learn from a few.”
“A woman needed half her leg amputated after she slipped and broke the leg as she was cleaning her bath while she was still asleep. Not even the pain of a broken bone woke her and the angle at which...”
“Agriculture brought to human beings more than a new way of procuring food. It introduced a new way of thinking about the relationship between humans an nature. Hunter-gatherers considered themselve...”
“. . .a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. So it is meaningless to ask: which is real, "real" or "imaginary" time? It i...”
“Today, the people who make things change, the people who have that knowledge, are the scientists and the technologists, who are the true driving force of humanity. And before you say what about the...”
“There is no perfect security only maximum temporary security”
“The man who gives the world fusion, will give the world everything.”
“The man who gives fusion to the world, will give the world everything.”
“The persistence of this imagery calls to mind what Ludwik Fleck termed 'the self-contained' nature of scientific thought. As he described it, 'the interaction between what is already known, what re...”
“There are more stolen bikes in my garage than there are stars in the galaxy.”
“Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections.”
“Being skeptical is a balancing act it doesn't mean being dismissive.”
“... Weber insists that the value of science is always to be questioned and not simply presupposed... He is... critical of the presupposition which underlies Strauss' position, namely that scientifi...”
