May 2010
“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”
—Albert Szent-Györgi (via scienceisbeauty)
“There is no better way to learn something than to write about it.”
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Martin Gardner
“I feel sure of only one conclusion. The ability to design and create new forms of life marks a turning-point in the history of our species and our planet.”
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Freeman Dyson
Edge: REALITY CLUB - On “Creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome”
“Lo malo es que no estemos organizados, debería haber una organización en cada casa, en cada calle, en cada barrio, Un gobierno, dijo la mujer, Una organización, el cuerpo también es un sistema organizado, está vivo mientras se mantiene organizado, la muerte no es más que el efecto de una desorganización…”
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José Saramago
De Ensayo sobre la ceguera, Alfaguara, 1996, p. 329
(Selección de Diego Mesa)
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Ingrid D. Rowland
The Italians have a one-syllable word, an interjection, that means “I don’t know”: “Boh.” And “Boh” is probably the only credible commentary anyone can make right now about the country’s political situation.
“One finds that it would take about 10^100 times the current age of the universe for the proton to decay in that fashion. We can safely forget about that.”
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Sabine Hossenfelder in
“Soit une multiplicité vectorielle,
Un corps opère seul, abstrait, commutatif.
Le dual reste loin, solitaire et plaintif,
Cherchant l’isomorphie et la trouvant rebelle.” —
Un corps opère seul, abstrait, commutatif.
Le dual reste loin, solitaire et plaintif,
Cherchant l’isomorphie et la trouvant rebelle.” —
Simone Weil
(via Popinga)
