“At these meetings, which were about the year 1655, divers experiments were suggested, discoursed, and tried with various successes, though no other account was taken of them but what particular persons perhaps did for the help of their own memories; so that many excellent things have been lost.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“When you split the brain, you still end up with only one person. However, this person experiences two streams of visual information, one for each visual field. And that person is unable to integrate the two streams. It is as if he watches an out-of-sync movie.”— Yaïr Pinto, aeon.co
“Santa Claus, like Mars, is just a model – but one that cannot be refuted or retained.”— Joel Frohlich, aeon.co
“Loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed, but simply that one is alive.”— Regan Penaluna, nautil.us
“If we can replace everything—cells, tissues—as we live, then there would be presumably no limits to how long we could live. But if we replace our neurons, we’re also rewriting our own experience in the process, and cease to be ourselves. I think that’s the real penalty for extending life beyond the…”— Philip Ball, aging.nautil.us
“Contrary to popular belief, peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head.”— Daniel A. Gross, nautil.us
“Kirste found that two hours of silence per day prompted cell development in the hippocampus, the brain region related to the formation of memory, involving the senses.”— Daniel A. Gross, nautil.us
“I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.”— Max Born, books.google.com
“Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.”— Max Born, rsc.byu.edu
“It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“America has grown by expansion in a practical vacuum; the pioneers of the West had to overcome terrific natural obstacles, but negligible human resistance. The Russia of today had to conquer not only natural but human difficulties: she had to break up the rotten system of the Czars and to assimilate…”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“I must give some attention to the delicate question of religion, on which I have touched already. In my father's generation this question still was discussed with passion. Since then a sort of truce has existed in the countries of the West, while in the communist states of the East atheism has been…”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.”— Max Born, todayinsci.com
“During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete. Science has become an integral and most important part of our civilization, and scientific work means contributing to its development. Science in our technical age ha…”— Max Born, todayinsci.com
“But I believe that there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at cross-roads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.”— Max Born, todayinsci.com
“Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“Most scientists want to stand up, tell the truth — free from attack, serve the world. Science, in the public interest, protects our health, powers our economy, keeps us safe. That’s why supporting science, protecting it from big-money political attacks, is so important.”— Jon Foley, twitter.com