Read quote“We have to invest in curiosity-driven research: research that comes from a simple desire to improve our understanding of the world.”
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Scientific inquiry, discovery, evidence, and understanding the natural world.
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Words on Science
Read quote“I personally have a feeling that when we do understand how the brain works it’s going to be much simpler than we currently think.”
Read quote“There had been no sculptor in my country for seventeen hundred years and the images that appeared among the ruins and sands at the edge of the desert were considered accursed, evil — no one should go near.”
Read quote“If a pebble or an egg can be enjoyed for the sake of its shape only, it is one step towards a true appreciation of sculpture.”
Read quote“the democratization of measurement tools”
Read quote“This means a lot to me since it recognises interdisciplinary research.”
Read quote“Don't cut back on basic research. It's necessary to the future of this country. That's my message.”
Read quote“Each eradication of one of these is a gain to science; and each vulgar opinion, proved to be erroneous, is an approximation to truth.”
Read quote“Psychology must be recognized as the more strictly empirical.”
Read quote“The big thing about being in science and engineering is that if you have a good, interesting project going, work is not coming to work, it’s coming to an adventure.”
Read quote“I used to check him and at the same time express to him my sense of the high advantage derived from this establishment in a scientific point of view.”
Read quote“What I object to is improper science sold as science.”
Read quote“This invention relates to instruments, such as aneroids, and operating means therefor.”
Read quote“Conjectures ignore dislike and suspicion, but they cannot ignore counterexamples.”
Read quote“No valor da ciência, está o valor da vida; fora da vida, a ciência não tem a menor finalidade.”
Read quote““I could use a youngster like you in my laboratory.””
Read quote“I have built very greatly on the work of others.”
Read quote“A donde no alcance el telescopio, la razón alcanza.”
Read quote“It seems that as the turbine is the most efficient prime mover known, it will be developed for aircraft.”
Read quote“My interest in aircraft propulsion began in the fall of 1933.”
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Sena wanted the youth science prize badly enough to count every creature twice. Then the tide pools began losing the places where those creatures lived.
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Weather Has More Than One Voice
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A Weather of Questions
When her balloon experiment collapses before the school exhibition, retired weather announcer Nadezhda Arin turns failure into a sky-sized investigation.
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