This is why we study science!
(via IFLS)
One of the greatest science facts; you are the Universe.
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“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” - Niels Bohr
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Take a tour through the Big Questions of the origin, arrangement and future of the universe with these talks by Sean Carroll, Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."
"Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages."
"What happens when we fall in love is probably one of the most difficult things in the whole universe to explain. It’s something we do without thinking. In fact, if we think about it too much, we usually end up doing it all wrong and get in a terrible muddle. That’s because when you fall in love, the right side of your brain gets very busy. The right side is the bit that seems to be especially important for our emotions. Language, on the other hand, gets done almost completely in the left side of the brain. And this is one reason why we find it so difficult to talk about our feelings and emotions: the language areas on the left side can’t send messages to the emotional areas on the right side very well. So we get stuck for words, unable to describe our feelings."
Robin Dunbar, Evolutionary psychologist, on what’s happening in our brains when we experience love.
It’s part of a new collection of Big Questions From Little People, brilliant scientists from Lawrence Krauss to Richard Dawkins answering the questions of children. It’s brilliant. Check it out at Brain Pickings.
(via jtotheizzoe)
"He is, by any measure, unqualified to make decisions about science, space, and technology."
He’s discussing Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), who is known for two things:
- Asserting that evolution and the Big Bang theory are “all lies straight from the pit of Hell.”
- Serving on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Can’t change #1, but I think we should change #2.
(via jtotheizzoe)
I’m gonna go with J on this, and it’s not just Paul B, just about that whole committee needs to be replaced with people who actually reflect what science, space, and technology are all about.
"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."
Ashley Montague (via sciencequotes)
"Science is primarily an investigation of our place of the Universe — the place that people occupy in a world which ranges from the tiniest subatomic particles to the furthest reaches of space and time. We do not exist in isolation, and science is a human cultural activity, not a purely dispassionate striving after truth, no matter how hard we might try. It is all about where we came from, and where we are going. And it is the most exciting story ever told."
- John Gribbin, in Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything
It really is the most exciting story ever told.
Beautiful T^T
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When you’re scientifically literate, the world looks different to you. It’s a particular way of questioning what you see and hear. When empowered by this state of mind, objective realities matter. These are the truths of the world that exist outside of whatever your belief system tells you.
One objective reality is that our government doesn’t work, not because we have dysfunctional politicians, but because we have dysfunctional voters. As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.
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"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."
Carl Sagan (via scinerds)
"Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell."
Aldous Huxley (via socialistscum)
I wouldn’t doubt it. Heck, if our own species notes how terrible we handle this planet I’m sure there’s another one in a distant part of the Universe taking better care of theirs.
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do."
Richard P. Feynman
"It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act."
Emma Goldman
