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Words of wisdom for today (and every day)
Just can’t get enough of Richard Feynman. Legend.
(via understandingtheuniverse)
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
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Jul
Jul
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.
- Isidor Isaac Rabi, Nobel Prize winning physicist recognised for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.
08
Jul
Jul
At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours. They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryotes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there. Ever since, they have maintained themselves and their ways, replicating in their own fashion, privately, with their own DNA and RNA quite different from ours. They are as much symbionts as the rhizobial bacteria in the roots of beans. Without them, we would not move a muscle, drum a finger, think a thought.
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Spare a thought for the mitochondria.
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Jun
There’s a reductive danger in this fantasy [of a universal library]: for if the world can be compressed into a library, then why not into a single book — why not into a single word?
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From Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles.
(via Brain Pickings)
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Jun
Jun
The three-pound organ in your skull — with its pink consistency of Jell-o — is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we’ve dreamt of building. So if you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.
- Neuroscientist David Eagleman
(via explore-blog)
02
Jun
Jun
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
- A great quote from physicist, Lewis Thomas, on the beautiful, curious nature of genetic mutation and the biological diversity that results.
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Words of Wisdom For Today
Listen, ask questions, learn.
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Words of Wisdom for Today
Wise words.
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Words of wisdom for today
Well said, AE.
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May
May
One of the most profoundly important things I want to remind you about the universe is that it’s big, and it’s old, and therefore rare events happen all the time. That’s really important, because if there’s another lesson in this vices and virtues thing, it’s really that we all think that events that happen to us are significant. We ascribe significance to them, and in fact most of them are accidents. And the hardest thing to do is to convince yourself that what happens to you is just an accident, but it happens all the time.
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Hi there, I'm Jim: PhD student in the biological sciences, enthusiast, friendly neighbour, Australian.
