Quotes About Science

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems . . . there's no law of physics preventing them." –Michio Kaku Physicist and co-founder of string field theory

Annie regularly shares her observations on the science of smart decision-making (applied to much more than poker) on her blog, Annie's Analysis,

The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling The Science of Words by George A. Miller Retreat from Doomsday by John Mueller The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald Symons Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell Clear and Simple as the Truth by Francis Noël-Thomas and Mark Turner

Science isn't about being right preemptively or knowing the answer. Science is motivated by the human drive to struggle to discover.

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I always advise young people to become good public speakers (top 25%). Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you're the boss of the people who have only one skill. Or get a degree in business on top of your engineering degree, law degree, medical degree, science degree, or whatever. Suddenly you're in charge, or maybe you're starting your own company using your combined knowledge.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, the most-gifted book of several people in this book, as well as in a wonderful short documentary called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

Steven Pinker: anything. He's one of the clearest thinkers and communicators of our time. Among many other things, he convinced me that I could never understand myself without understanding how humans evolved.

Si la dieta cetogénica te parece para lunáticos, el empleo de cetonas exógenas sólo requiere mezclar una cucharada de polvo con agua y beber.

DCA (ácido dicloroacético): Por razones aún no esclarecidas del todo y en determinadas circunstancias, el DCA es capaz de aniquilar las células cancerosas en dosis apenas tóxicas para las células normales. Dom

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

and forward thinker. Genome, The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, The Rational Optimist—they're all great.

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Moreover, liberals asserted, the church maintained unsanitary practices, such as interring the remains of pious elites in the walls and beneath the floors of cathedrals, and it was unalterably opposed to science, progress, and liberal political ideas, making free use of censorship and spiritual intimidation to uphold its dogmas

Science is all metaphor.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.

some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.

Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible.

States should invest in science so that the future can be calmly contemplated.

We share Hitler's planet and several of his preoccupations; we have changed less than we think. We like our living space, we fantasize about destroying governments, we denigrate science, we dream of catastrophe. if we think that we are the victims of some planetary conspiracy, we edge towards Hitler. If we believe that the Holocaust was a result of the inherent characteristics of Jews, Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, or anyone else, then we are moving in Hitler's world.

You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

Dogs when happy are perfectly happy; and even when things go against them, they assume the best and keep up a cheerful attitude towards life: they are the first Christian Scientists in history. - Richard Burton, Three of a Kind