#log

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗

— Kevin Alan Lee

#government #health-care #health-care-system #humanism #medical

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#cosmology #eschatology #physics #science #stars

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. ↗

— Louis Althusser

#ideology #philosophy #science #war #science

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#hypotheses #hypothesis #music #neuroscience #psychology

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. ↗

— Sheldon B. Kopp

#psychology #design

The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning. ↗

— Rodolfo R. Llinás

#cognitive-psychology #creativity #neuroscience #psychology #science

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#accurate #best #common #common sense #fallacy

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#science #science

What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic? ↗

— Steven Novella

#science #science-vs-religion #skeptics-guide-to-the-universe #nature

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes ↗

— Edsger Wybe DIJKSTRA

#computers #science