Way back in 1831, Michael Faraday, one of the founders of our modern understanding of electromagnetism, was asked by an inquiring politician about the usefulness of this newfangled "electricity" stuff. His apocryphal reply: "I know not, but I wager that one day your government will tax it".
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they...
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Neil Degrasse Tyson
And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you...
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Unknown
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Isaac Asimov
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Arthur C. Clarke
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Charles Darwin
More Quotes By Sean Carroll
The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.
Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans–and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas–than quantum mechanics.
Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that prevent us from seeing the world with perfect clarity. We aspire to...
Historically, nature has been very good at surprising us.
Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we could imagine being brought to religious belief through scientific investigation), I will argue that in practice they diverge. If we believe that the...
