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As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place.
“As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place.”
— Bill Bryson · Science
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“As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place.”
“The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.”
“La mayor parte de lo que ha vivido en la Tierra no ha dejado atrás el menor recuerdo.”
“I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.”
“An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.”
“Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.”
“1800'lerin ortalarında Alman fizikçi ve hekim Hermann Hemholtz (1821-1894)), gözlerden beyne damla damla akmakta olan verilerin, yaşadığımız zengin görme deneyimini açıklayamayacak kadar zayıf olduğu yönünde bir kuşkuya kapılmıştı. Vardığı sonuç ise beynin, gelen verilerle ilgili varsayımlarda bulunuyor olması gerektiği ve bu varsayımların önceki deneyimlere dayalı olduğu yolundaydı. Bir başka deyişle beyin, kendisine gelen az miktardaki bilgiyi, en iyi tahminleri bir araya getirerek daha büyük bir şeye dönüştürmekteydi.”
“Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.”
“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.”
“In a way,” Ava said, “we hardly know ourselves. Our senses are limited, our brains are biased, and our instruments are imprecise. Even all of visible matter is just a tiny fraction of what exists. Think about dark matter and dark energy. Think about all the hypotheses that haven’t been tested or can’t be tested in our lifetimes. Our bodies of knowledge are not only incomplete. They’re changing with every approximation, with every rigorous study. The more we learn, the more mysteries arise in the universe. To me, that’s the greatest realization. Discovering how insignificantly small we are in the cosmos while knowing we’re the cosmos too. We are what we’re looking for. We believe we’re so separate from everything, but we’re all connected in this moment, changing, always changing, but never capable enough to realize the immensity of existence itself. Our mammalian brains will never comprehend our interconnection to everything. We’re waves in an ocean and we don’t truly understand how deep that ocean can go.”