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Imagine, a room, awash in... 10 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9, 000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who`s ahead, who`s s...
In science it often happens... 10 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that`s a really good argument; my position is mistaken", and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view fro...
We live in a society... 10 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disa...
Science is much more than... 10 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don`t conform to our preconceptions. It c...
Common sense is not so... 10 Aug 2013 | 05:28 pm
Common sense is not so common. (Voltaire, quoted by Jeremy Kilpatrick in Meaning in Mathematics Education)
It requires a very unusual... 10 Aug 2013 | 05:22 pm
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Alfred North Whitehead: Science and the Modern World)
Only a fool of a... 10 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place. (Paul Kurtz)
The surest sign that intelligent... 10 Aug 2013 | 03:13 pm
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson: Calvin and Hobbes)
Anyone who believes that the... 10 Aug 2013 | 03:11 pm
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.) (Alan S...
Physicists have come to realize... 10 Aug 2013 | 03:09 pm
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. (Brian Greene: The Fabric of the Cosmos)
