#science

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ↗

— Max Gluckman

#beyond #discipline #fool #generation #genius

A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#science #imagination

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any determination of illiteracy, whether it applies to language or to science. But anything like 95 percent illiteracy is extremely serious. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#literacy #science #social-conditions #education

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins: Politics without principle. Wealth without work. Commerce without morality. Pleasure without conscience. Education without character. Science without humility. Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#deadly-sins #education #gandhi #pleasure #politics

A ști anumite lucruri pe de rost îți conferă capacitatea unei înțelegeri superioare. ↗

— Jean-Claude Carrière

#intelligence #science #understanding #intelligence

All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote. ↗

— Kenneth Boulding

#science #intelligence

With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent. ↗

— Janet Edwards

#funny #future #humor #jarra #science-fiction

L'Homme a arrêté son évolution après avoir inventé la roue et l'air climatisé. ↗

— Mike Resnick

#science #évolution #intelligence

Anyone can get their hands on a fortune but to become successful one must work intelligent and hard.”- EMW ↗

— Erik Martin Willén

#intelligence

And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#history #history-of-science #ideas #intelligent-playfulness #science