Saturday, January 12, 2013

Science quote of the day


"Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved." - Bertrand Russel

Friday, January 11, 2013

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Science quote of the day


"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking*

*Note - Yesterday was Stephen Hawking's 71st birthday.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Science quote of the day


"The Illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler

Monday, January 7, 2013

The sad world we live in (Math)


Science quote of the day

"There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Science quote of the day

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Science quote of the day


"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

Friday, January 4, 2013

Science quote of the day


"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Science quote of the day

"String Theory talks about the universe at the Planck length scale. How big is that? If one atom were the size of the entire known universe, the Planck length would be the height of an average tree." - Brian Greene

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Science quote of the day


"We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observationsnobody looks up anymore." - Neil deGrasse Tyson