Quoted in The Grove: science
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
~Will Durant
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
~Henry Petroski
Religion is concerned with how the world should work; science with how the world does work.
~Dr Idel Dreimer
EndQuote:
Science is Nature’s interpreter.
~James Lendall Basford
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Exercise Prompt for 03/07: sign
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All Science had its Errors in the Past.
‘Tis better Error should come First than Last.
~Arthur Guiterman
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
~Jules Verne
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
~Lewis Thomas
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
~Richard P Feynman
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POSTED from THE GROVE
In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
~Carl Sagan
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
~Robert A Heinlein
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Being a scientist is like doing a jigsaw puzzle in a snowstorm at night, with some pieces missing, and with no idea what the finished picture looks like.
~Anonymous
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
~Wernher Von Braun
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ~Marston Bates
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.
~Albert Einstein
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
~Will Harvey
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~Erik Wernquist: Wanderers (3:50) written/narrated by Carl Sagan
https://vimeo.com/108650530
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~Noel Botham & the Useless Information Society: Facts About the Human Brain
https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?4286
Thx: Delanceyplace.com
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~Veritasium: The Illusion Only Some Can See (16:55) how comes early, examples follow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBap_Lp-0oc
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Malevolent criticisms will not disturb my peace of mind, I shall take no notice of them, however carefully they may be dressed up in the garb of science.
~Sebastian Kneipp
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
~Arnold H Glasow
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
~Hippocrates
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
~Charles Darwin
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
~Adam Smith
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
~Henry Adams
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VIDEO:
Why are things as they are and not otherwise?
~Johannes Kepler
There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.
~Paul Davies
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.
~Charles Darwin
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.
~Allan Sandage
It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
~Max Planck
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~James Kennedy: CTRL Z (23:15) sci-fi rom-com
https://vimeo.com/266473858
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~Shep Films: In The Pines (8:56) a visitation?
https://vimeo.com/53532069
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~Dan Florencio: Awfully Deep (12:29) allegory?
https://vimeo.com/44035481
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What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn’t prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.
~Stephen Hawking
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~Walter Lippmann
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The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother’s milk.
~H L Mencken
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’
~Erwin Chargaff
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
~Martin Rees
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
~Steven Weinberg
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
~Robert Quillen
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
~Galileo Galilei
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details.
~Albert Einstein
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
~Jean Rostand
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MUSIC:
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
~Arthur C Clarke
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
~Mary Kay Ash
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
~Robert A Heinlein
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
~Ray Bradbury
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
~Stephen Hawking
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~David Bowie: Space Oddity, feat. Cmdr Chris Hadfield, astronaut (5:30) filmed International Space Station
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~Peter Schilling: Major Tom (4:06) a different Major Tom in space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0A0XcWy88
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~Elton John: Rocket Man feat. Iron Horse (3:55) bluegrass works nicely here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=forqmom3YuY
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~Sam Cooke: Wonderful World feat. Ivy Stokes (1:44) charming delivery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5wkd3ZbSA
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
~Neil Armstrong
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
~Max Planck
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
~J T Fraser
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
~Karl Pearson
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
~Ernest Rutherford
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
~Albert Einstein
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
~Niels Bohr
That theory is worthless. It isn’t even wrong!
~Wolfgang Pauli
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The element of surprise wasn’t allowed near the Periodic Table
~Joseph-Gordon Levitt
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When gravity calls, something falls.
~JLW Brooks
The law of gravity is absurd and indefensible when you fall downstairs; but you obey it.
~Arnold Bennett
Ah, gravity: thou art a heartless bitch.
~The Big Bang Theory
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Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
~Matt Groening
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “Science Fiction” … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
~Kurt Vonnegut
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself “well, that’s not going to happen”
~Rita Rudner
A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women.
~Author unknown
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.
~Russell Baker
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.
~Henry J Tillman
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
~Dave Barry
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
~George Carlin
When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they’re not it.
~Bernard Bailey
Science has now determined there is a direct relationship between the way the ball bounces and the cookie crumbles.
~Anonymous
I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It’s also been lying about its weight.
~Bill Maher
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
~Bill Watterson
The goal of science and engineering is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
~Anonymous
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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
~Edward Teller
The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
~Thomas H Huxley
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
~John Polanyi
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~Thomas A Edison
Physics is imagination in a straitjacket.
~John Moffat
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.
~J B S Haldane
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
~Bertrand Russell
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
~Isaac Asimov
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
~Fred Alan Wolfe
Quantum physics makes me so happy — it’s like looking at the universe naked.
~from The Big Bang Theory
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
~Ernest Rutherford
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@WRITERS PLATFORM
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
~Theodore Sturgeon
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
~Paul Dirac
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
~Will Durant
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
~Steven Weinberg
When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.
~Steven Wright
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~Albert Einstein
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
~Albert Einstein
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Glass Table:
@Wordgrove Library: Christone’s new cornucopia of video links (far east end of Wordgrove) includes this link: Michael Wilson of There.com on the CBS Early Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2tJ1lmuTDA&index=47&list=PL487BEA0E63C711DB
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
~Werner Heisenberg
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.
~Jim Lovell
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~Arthur C Clarke
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny…”
~Isaac Asimov
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Exercise Prompt: science
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
~Werner Heisenberg
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.
~Jim Lovell
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~Arthur C Clarke
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny…”
~Isaac Asimov
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The Exercise:
~BarTalk:
disqualified
science says
skies aren’t really blue
nor the eyes
while allowing
written tests for love
disallowing you and i
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faux definition #28
science.
the appliance of numbers
to questions in a language
verified reliant
but alien, often
in open defiance
of the heart
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science-be-damned definitions
Oort cloud: old Sol’s crowning halo composed solely of his most distant debris
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Ort shelf: a protuberance just shy a paunch for catching fallen crumbs and spots of sauce
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5-7-5-7-7
strictures of science
speedbumps on the road of life
silent compliance
flesh, love, randy fantasies
chased life, chaste eternity
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5-7-5
curiosity
need to know the goad to go
alias: science
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All Science had its Errors in the Past.
‘Tis better Error should come First than Last.
~Arthur Guiterman
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
~Jules Verne
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
~Lewis Thomas
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Until about a hundred years ago rational men lived like spies in an enemy country. They never walked abroad unless disguised in irony or allegory.
~Bergen Evans
Life is full of pus-wounds, headaches, bellyaches, and the sordidness of the world. The artist sees them differently, that’s all! The great men of science are supreme artists.
~Martin H Fischer
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
~Arthur Koestler
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
~Muriel Rukeyser
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
~Paul Valery
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
~Bruce Feirstein
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
~William Lawrence Bragg
Some things need to be believed to be seen.
~Guy Kawasaki
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It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.
~Georg C Lichtenberg
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
~W H Auden
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
~Albert Einstein
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Art is I; science is we.
~Claude Bernard
That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
~Bill Watterson
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
~Albert Einstein
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
~Carl Sagan
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~Edwin Powell Hubble
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