Science and Medicine
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom -
Isaac Asimov
Max Tegmark • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [Paperback] Tegmark,
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment . Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth.”
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I Ch. 1: Atoms in Motion
A disproven hypothesis is just as important to the final pattern as a supported one.
Elizabeth Bear • The Folded Sky (White Space)
“It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.” Richard Feynman
Malcolm Kendrick • The Clot Thickens
Heck yeah!
The broad mission of public health is to “fulfill society’s interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.” (p. 1)
CPH MPHTM MD Terry Dwelle • Introduction to Public Health: Promises and Practices
The health of the human body is ultimately dependent on the health of habitat and community. And yet, this connection is almost universally ignored in modern health disciplines where biomedical reductionism rules the day. Human health and environmental preservation are treated as entirely different fields, with miles of empty space between them.