Rebecca Cole
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Rebecca Cole
llms not learning "i don’t know”
The conversation about separating the person from the practice has been slower to surface in science than it has in the literary, film, journalism, and art worlds. It might seem that there is less distance between an artist and the thing they create than for their counterparts in the sciences because art is often positioned as subjective and... See more
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Q: How realistic do you think it was that Grace was exiled from the scientific community because he brought up the possibility of non–water-based life?
A: I think it was a little bit exaggerated—a lot exaggerated, maybe—that our field would really try and isolate him in the way that it sounds like it happened. But there are rivalries in science.... See more
A: I think it was a little bit exaggerated—a lot exaggerated, maybe—that our field would really try and isolate him in the way that it sounds like it happened. But there are rivalries in science.... See more
Just a moment...
If a happy consumer is indeed a bad consumer, the inferiorized woman is more valuable than gold in today’s America. Once we are infected with the disease (the belief that our bodies are deficient and must be improved ), we can be sold the cure. The antidote for our inferiorized bodies is a never-ending slew of cosmetic surgery, makeup, serums,... See more
father_karine • The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
The gaze of the Other is internalized so that I myself become at once seer and seen, appraiser and the thing appraised.
father_karine • The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
I wanted, above all else, to be good. And I wanted the path to that goodness to be clear. I suspect that this is why I excelled at math and science, where the rules are laid out step by step, where if you did something exactly the way it was supposed to be done, the result would be exactly as it was expected to be.
Yaa Gyasi • Transcendent Kingdom: A novel
If a wheelbarrow began to float, a scientist would look for magnetic levitators or, if necessary, assign the phenomenon to some new kind of force—a natural and lawful force, not a supernatural force.
Alan Lightman • Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
BUT this means that they hold a deep and unwavering faith in the fact that the universe in all its infinity obeys laws