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Morning Science Quote

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric revels the organization of the entire tapestry.- Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, p.34 ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 18 2009 - 6:00am

Morning Science Quote

Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have great universities, seats of great learning where men go ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 19 2009 - 6:04am

Morning Science Quote

There are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. The not entertaini ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 20 2009 - 6:04am

Morning Science Quote

It is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the at ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 21 2009 - 9:15pm

The Say of the Week

" I seldom enjoy competition in real life. I find it fun only when I am up against somebody who takes things more seriously than I do. " QDS ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 25 2009 - 5:56pm

Morning Science Quote

Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person's mental map. It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as well.- Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner, p. 15 ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 22 2009 - 6:04am

Coffee Break Science Browsing

That first early morning cup is wearing off; it's time for more coffee zen and a dose of science browsing to bring the day back into equilibrium: Who knew bugs could be beautiful? Bug Safari is one of the most enjoyable blogs in my reader. Cindy has ...

Article - Michael White - May 22 2009 - 10:00am

Morning Science Quote

The question of what the major current problems of Biology are cannot be answered, for I do not know of a single biological discipline that does not have major unsolved problems... still, the most burning and as yet most intractable problems are those tha ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 23 2009 - 6:00am

Morning Science Quote

For every complex problem, there is a simple, easy to understand, incorrect answer.- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, quoted in Robert Pennock, Tower of Babel, p. 367 ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 24 2009 - 6:00am

Memorial Day Science Quote

I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 25 2009 - 12:51pm