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| "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the immensity of the sea." - //Antoine de Saint-Exupery// | "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the immensity of the sea." - //Antoine de Saint-Exupery// | ||
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| "Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." | "Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." | ||
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| + | "All too often my colleagues and I present this knowledge in ways so abstract that no one understands why we looked for it in the first place. The disconnect between experts and non-experts is so widespread that Steve Fuller claims that academics use incomprehensible terminology to keep insights sparse and thereby more valuable, and Nicholas Kristof complains, academics encode " | ||
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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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