science

"We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria — so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if …"

"It is hard to say whether increasing complexity is the cause or the effect of man's effort to cope with his expanding environment. In either case a central feature of the trend has been the developmen…"

"Globalization is not in itself a folly: It has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well."

"Many are now skeptical of Freud’s theory – and of psychoanalysis in general – but the broad idea that the unconscious is in the driving seat has become widely accepted and has been given empirical sup…"

"In terms of language, we do know what a scientific theory or conceptual system must be: it is a thematic pattern of semantic relationships in a subject, one that is reconstructed again and again in ne…"

"Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least."

"Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies."

"Upon encountering a new topic, try this: imagine that you are the first person ever to see the laboratory results on which it is based. Imagine that you must construct the new concepts and explanation…"

"The cosmic also keeps me busy, more than the other 'Nieuwe Vizie' . For me it means the feeling of forces in nature like electricity, radio, radar, and of forces that one only suspects, and has not be…"

"There are, in fact, as I began to say above, not a few principles which are the special property of mathematics, such principles as are discovered by the common light of nature, require no demonstrati…"

"In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel."

"e also took on, a decade ago, the interesting problem of making Coronavirus vaccines because we recognized these as enormous public health threats, and yet we have not seen the big pharma guys and the…"

"Political science is the study of the authoritative allocation of values for a society."

"Auschwitz was contained in the principles of Nazi racist theory like the seed in the fruit."

"I built my first linear motor in 1948 and wrote my first paper on the subject in 1954. The Gorton experiment took place in 1962. The first model of a tracked hovercraft was publicly demonstrated at Br…"

"Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements."

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."

"I am not saying that philosophies, since they are speculative, speak of the nonexistent. When they say 'subject' or 'class struggle' or 'dialectics', they always point to something that should have be…"

"Interdeterminacy was a figure-ground problem arising from incongruity between the visual bias of classical science and the new acoustic sensibilities."

"Great art is never extreme. Criticism moves in a false direction, as does art, when it aspires to be a social science.. .In this world modern artists form a kind of spiritual underground."