Quotes About Science

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Life in orbit is spectacular

Newton must have been right when he'd said that light consisted of particles, for today he could feel them hitting him.

lost much. The thought of my body's chirality

No one knows where they came from, whether they're the result of some unnatural twist of evolution or the unexpected outcome of some bizarre magical or scientific experiment. No one believes they were created on purpose, though. There isn't a sorcerer or scientist insane enough to even contemplate such a thing, let alone actually do it. Chiranha are a cross between piranha and Chihuahua, and as silly as that might sound, no one in Nekropolis laughs at them.

Sometimes the crowd is right; often it is wrong. It remains for science to read the balance.

The other goal was to prohibit teaching of evolution. The Klan backed a new law in Tennessee that made it a crime for a public school teacher to explain "any theory that denies the story of Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible.

America cannot remain half-Christian and half-agnostic." Thereafter, the Klan lobbied for teaching the biblical story of seven days of creation in public school science classes

the American Breeders Association, had nothing to do with horses; its eugenics committee was headed by a man who'd been president of Indiana University, and the first president of Stanford, David S. Jordan. He taught that the human race could be improved only by preventing the disabled or certain nonwhites from reproducing

use fat, not water, to counter hotness. Capsaicin is fat-soluble.

Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical

Going 16 hours without eating generally provides the right balance of autophagy (look it up) and anabolism (muscle building).

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms. The

currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).

El ratón Pérez puede salvarte la vida (o a tus hijos) La doctora Patrick me introdujo en el uso de los dientes para almacenar células madre. Si en algún momento te quitan las muelas del juicio o a tus hijos se les caen los dientes de leche (los cuales tienen una concentración especialmente alta de células madre de pulpa dental) plantéate recurrir a una empresa como StemSave o National Dental Pulp Laboratory para conservarlos con la finalidad de usarlos más adelante.

If you don't believe in God, you should believe in the technology that's going to make us immortal.

Once you reach 0.5 mmol—millimolars, a concentration—you can consider yourself lightly "in ketosis.

To boil water, the MED is 212°F (100°C) at standard air pressure. Boiled is boiled. Higher temperatures will not make it "more boiled." Higher temperatures just consume more resources that could be used for something else more productive.

you don't need to understand any of the biology, just as you don't need to understand radiation to use a microwave oven.

Heraclitean Fire by Erwin Chargaff,

La segunda ley (Prensa científica, 1992), «escrita por un profesor de Fisicoquímica de Oxford llamado P. W. Atkins.

Alison Gopnik's Scientist in the Crib

Biology isn't about blunt force.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant, and River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins.