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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your read more
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and read more
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
We're all living in a chemical soup.
We're all living in a chemical soup.
The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure read more
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite read more
Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours read more
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.
