science

"My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure,” I was supposed to have said in my molecular biology days. I think that one sho…"

"Then one day, I took my courage in both hands. I first expanded my reading and immersed myself in philosophical and scientific works that called for reflection on the existence of God, such as To End …"

"he task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases."

"It has long seemed obvious — and is, in fact, the characteristic tone of European science — that “science” means breaking up complexes into their component elements. Isolate the elements, discover the…"

"He was always imprisoned by his conscience, yet he did make compromises for public consumption."

"Biographical data of Minister Dilma Rousseff from the official website of the Presidency of Brazil"

"The first major discovery of prehistoric art was the Spanish cave of Altamira, which, like Lascaux, is one of the most spectacular examples of Upper Paleolithic art yet known."

"As Gauss first pointed out, the problem of cyclotomy, or division of the circle into a number of equal parts, depends in a very remarkable way upon arithmetical considerations. We have here the earlie…"

"A complete theory would have to answer, among others, the following questions, given two adjoining retinal areas of different stimulation, under what conditions will the corresponding parts of the beh…"

"If you use conventional data compression on the genome, you get about 23 million bytes , which is a level of complexity we can handle."

"Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time."

"Science has only increased the area of the unknown. And if there is a God, her name is Mystery."

"Experimental version of the Maxims"

"The universe of things in the midst of which we discover ourselves, is to be managed and placated, in so far as it is to be managed and placated at all, by the observation and classification of its ph…"

"With its weird red earth and its alien flora and fauna - the eucalyptus trees and kangaroos - Australia was the eighteenth-century equivalent of Mars. This helps explain why the first official respons…"

"That electrical energy can be economically transmitted without wires to any terrestrial distance, I have unmistakably established in numerous observations, experiments and measurements, qualitative an…"

"During the pandemic, many of us have begun to discover how much of our travel is unnecessary. Governments can build on this to create plans for reducing the need to move, while investing in walking, c…"

"I have recently returned from an expedition to scientific societies of the West. Their members exhibited intense interest in delicate instruments of my invention which demonstrate the indivisible unit…"

"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late."

"Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred."