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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your read more
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite read more
Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If read more
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.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It read more
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground read more
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
