#science

"Size does matter.Nano even better."

"If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't."

"What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away."

"I don't want to believe. I want to know."

"Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future."

"To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge."

"To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself.-Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)"

"Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."

"The human spirit must prevail over technology."

"Art is science made clear."

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."

"I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."

"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."

"Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists."

"Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships."

"Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry."

"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it."

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."