Weekend Words: Science
On Wednesday, Intel announced that it was “dropping its longtime support" of the Science Talent Search, "the most prestigious science and mathematics competition for American high school students,” according to the New York Times.
On Wednesday, Intel announced that it was “dropping its longtime support” of the Science Talent Search, “the most prestigious science and mathematics competition for American high school students,” according to the New York Times.
The Science Talent Search was started in 1942 and “counts among its past competitors eight Nobel Prize winners, along with chief executives, university professors and award-winning scientists.”
The article goes on to state that the contest costs the company about $6 million a year, “about 0.01 percent of Intel’s $55.6 billion in revenue last year,” and describes the move as “puzzling.”
Art is science made clear.
—Jean Cocteau
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
—Ruth Hubbard
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.
—Louis Pasteur
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador
—Sigmund Freud, letter, The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
—Marie Curie
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
—Stephen Leacock
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting — the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
—Saul Bellow
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
—George Bernard Shaw
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
—Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science
Before you leave these portals
To meet less fortunate mortals,
There’s just one final message
I would give to you.
You all have learned reliance
On the sacred teachings of science,
So I hope, through life, you never will decline
In spite of philistine
Defiance
To do what all good scientists do.
Experiment.
Make it your motto day and night.
Experiment
And it will lead you to the light.
The apple on the top of the tree
Is never too high to achieve.
—Cole Porter, “Experiment”
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
—Immanuel Kant
