Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger. Alastair Reynolds

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The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world. Lisa Randall

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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. Claude Bernard

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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. Alexis Carrel

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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. Abdus Salam

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Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers. Alexandra Elbakyan

Tell that to Elsevier!

Have you ever tried to publish a paper in a science or technical journal? The cheap ones are hundreds of dollars. It's thousands to publish in Nature.

* follow up: I just looked up Elbakyan.... that's exactly what she did, in fact.

[messier 111]

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? Carl Sagan .

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Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Paul Davies

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The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. Paul Davies

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Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. Martin H. Fische

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Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it. Lord Kelvin

[GCoyote]

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it. Lord Kelvin

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He had a point. Sometimes you literally have to 'stare into the abyss.'

[messier 111]

In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, 'Science is hard and boring.' We don't tell children, 'Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.' Elise Andrew

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Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe. John M. Grunsfeld

the same applies to the new James webb telescope.

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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates

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The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. Andrew Brown

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard

[GCoyote]

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates

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Which Microsoft has proved to be true by replacing human help desk workers with chatbots.
Lovely.

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard P. Feynman