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quotes [2019/11/15 17:05] – [What is science about?] ethanminotquotes [2022/11/03 16:07] (current) ethanminot
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 [Nobody understands how the rules of quantum mechanics can be the way they are] "I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get down the drain, into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that." - //Richard Feynman// [Nobody understands how the rules of quantum mechanics can be the way they are] "I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get down the drain, into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that." - //Richard Feynman//
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 +"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.” - //Lord Kelvin//
  
 ====Morals and Ethics==== ====Morals and Ethics====
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 “We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.” ― //Walt Stanchfield// “We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.” ― //Walt Stanchfield//
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 +"“The soul never thinks without a picture” — //Aristotle//
  
 "... drawing should be explicitly recognized alongside writing, reading, and talking as a key element in science education." "... drawing should be explicitly recognized alongside writing, reading, and talking as a key element in science education."
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