Science

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

Metaphysics,–the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Harmonics is a phenomenon associated with the study of waveforms, in which multiple frequencies are present within a single signal. In this context, harmonics can be defined as integer multiples …

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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn’t seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are not encouraged to sit back and philosophize.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don’t teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you’re making it harder for them.

 “By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.”

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

“Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.”

“If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn’t everything just follow quantum mechanics?”

“Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.”

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.”

“Talented data scientists leverage data that everybody sees; visionary data scientists leverage data that nobody sees.”
— Vincent Granville

“Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.”