Posts tagged "science"

mixture of the nematic liquid crystals I52 and ZLI1132 close to the clarification temperature.

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Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
    Richard Feynman, American physicist (1918-1988),  in 1985, cited in G. Laurence Nickard, Phenomenal surfaces and noumenal depths: Philosophy and quantum theory, ProQuest, 2006, p. 5. (via amiquote)
The properties of the contact agent, especially in catalytic reactions difficultly achieved, are those of the aristocracy of the atomic or molecular species concerned, and are as different from the statistical average behavior of the crowd as the actions of an educated minority of people should be different Hfrom that of an indiscriminately collected mob.
H. S. Taylor

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.