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Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same read more
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If read more
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue read more
It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge ... is to be alert to the dawnings.
