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The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything read more
The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.
Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million read more
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot read more
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
