For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
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Form follows function. - "Lippincott's Magazine", March, 1896.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
