It used to be said that the sea was a ruthlessly hostile environment which you only ventured at your peril.
“It used to be said that the sea was a ruthlessly hostile environment which you only ventured at your peril.”
— Mensun Bound · Science
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It used to be said that the sea was a ruthlessly hostile environment which you only ventured at your peril.
“It used to be said that the sea was a ruthlessly hostile environment which you only ventured at your peril.”
— Mensun Bound · Science
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“It used to be said that the sea was a ruthlessly hostile environment which you only ventured at your peril.”
“In broad terms, we are trying to find the Endurance so that she might be protected into the future, when conservation science will have advenced sufficiently for a responsible body to consider raising her remains for preservation and public display.”
“Ships can give you moments of subliminal happiness but they can also stretch you in ways you never thought possible.”
“There are only 3 chemical symbols which spell full words. The words are “Be” for Beryllium, “No” for Nobelium and “I“ for Iodine. Multiple chemical symbols can be mixed together to spell over 100 words, though, like Ac Ce S S I Bi Li Ti Es and YOU.”
“Unlike the West, the “true self” is not created over time but discovered7, which is why Daoist and Zen writings may refer to it as “original nature.” Our original nature is a primordial melody, and to hear it, one must silence all the extraneous noise.”
“Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.”
“The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.”
“Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.”