“Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.”— Sally Ride, articles.latimes.com
“Whatever its merits, the European position is rooted in its experiences that the free market of ideas can fail—disastrously.”— Mila Versteeg, theatlantic.com
“Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.”— Ivan Pavlov, amazon.com
“Study the art of science. Develop your senses— especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”— Leonardo da Vinci, amazon.com
“Some of our recent work has focused on how to change the mind of a psychopath. In 2015, together with John Curtin and Joseph Newman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we developed a computerised training package aimed at helping psychopaths attend to information outside their immediate goals. F…”— Arielle Baskin-Sommers, aeon.co
“It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.”— John Steinbeck, theatlantic.com
“A hypothesis is only the first step in any rigorous scientific process.”— Samuel H. Sternberg, Jennifer Doudna, amazon.com
“I’ve observed my toddler, barely old enough to walk, confidently swiping her way through an iPad.”— Jean M. Twenge, theatlantic.com
“The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.”— Jean M. Twenge, theatlantic.com
“Did industrial farming eliminate some forms of farming? Absolutely, but it amplified our capacity to produce agricultural goods. Not all of this was good, but it allowed us to feed more people. When you use a phone, you amplify the power of human speech. You cannot shout from New York to California…”— Geoffrey Hinton, newyorker.com
“I think that if you work as a radiologist you are like Wile E. Coyote in the cartoon. You’re already over the edge of the cliff, but you haven’t yet looked down. There’s no ground underneath. It’s just completely obvious that in five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists. It mi…”— Geoffrey Hinton, newyorker.com
“As scientists, we need to explain what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, not dictating how these discoveries and technologies should be used.”— Jennifer Doudna, cen.acs.org
“What I love about science is that enthusiastic, perpetual drive toward objective truth and understanding.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“steelmanning makes you a better person. It makes you more charitable, forcing you to assume, at least for a moment, that the people you’re arguing with, much as you ferociously disagree with them or even dislike them, are people who might have something to teach you. It makes you more compassionate,…”— Chana Messinger, theatlantic.com
“Just as your body was designed to extract oxygen from the Earth’s atmosphere, and nutrients from the foods you ingest, your body was designed to love. Love — like taking a deep breath, or eating an orange when you’re depleted and thirsty — not only feels great but is also life-giving, an indispensab…”— Barbara Fredrickson, aeon.co
“Claiming total certainty about the science traduces the spirit of science.”— Bret Stephens, nytimes.com