science

"If two objects or human beings show similar behaviour in all their relevant aspects open to observation, the assumption of some unobservable hidden difference between them must be regarded as a comple…"

"If the question be raised, why such an apparently special problem as the quadrature of the circle, is deserving of the sustained interest which has attained to it, and which it still possesses, the an…"

"Series of 5 articles from an 1952 issue of Scientific American about Automatic Control at modernmechanix.com."

"Systems theory is antireductionist; it asserts that no system can be adequately understood or totally explained once it has been broken down into its component parts."

"Instead of wanting everyone to share and know of their discoveries the Pythagoreans suppressed the square root of two and the dodecahedron. The outside world was not to know. The Pythagoreans had disc…"

"A theoretical investigation which Einstein published in 1917 provides a third conspicuous landmark. It connected up he two great landmarks already mentioned by showing that the disintegration of radio…"

"An equilibrium is not always an optimum; it might not even be good. This may be the most important discovery of game theory."

"From that time, the universe has steadily become more complex and less reducible to a central control. With as much obstinacy as though it were human, it has insisted on expanding its parts; with as m…"

"My students have described this process of testing ideas in science as: “Hit it with a sledgehammer and see if it breaks. Whatever survives is the best we've got." Science is a very adversarial activi…"

"In my view it is premature to conclude, on the basis of the evidence currently available , that the new virus can be transmitted before symptoms appear."

"The purpose of the Collège was the demolition of culture, even of surrealism, which they considered too organized. But make no mistake, these people were graduates of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and …"

"To all the young people who discover they are gay: Don't be afraid to come out of the closet right now."

"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."

"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."

"It has seemed to me that the theory of probabilities ought to serve as the basis for the study of all the sciences, and particularly of the sciences of observation."

"Our program was a scientific one it must be constantly changed at minor points to meet the continuous advance of science. And I maintain that no man – Marx, in spite of his comprehensive and deep inte…"

"Is it not a fact that a learned physician is better equipped to diagnose and to cure an illness than a layman or the medicine-man of a primitive society? Is it not a fact that epidemics and dangerous …"

"But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary."

"Science treads in the same footsteps of our ancestors, answering to our longing to understand where we fit in as we look up to the sky."

"Unique freeview videos of Feynman's lectures on QED courtesy of The Vega Science Trust and The University of Auckland"