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Jacob Falkovich • Review: How to Not Die Alone
Poetry and science—individually, but especially together—are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply. We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other.
Maria Popova • The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry
— Paul Valéry
Explain that stuff! Science and technology made simple
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Science is itself an exercise in prediction. We advance our knowledge of the world through a process of hypothesis and testing.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
A quote from When breath becomes air:
“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
the hedgehog review • Mystery
Ends of Science
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