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Morning Science Quote
By Michael White | June 24th 2009 06:05 AM | 3 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About Michael White

Welcome to Adaptive Complexity, where I write about genomics, systems biology, evolution, and the connection between science and literature, government, and society.

I'm a biochemist


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When you turn the resources of modern science to the problem of killing people, you realize how vulnerable they really are.

- Physicist I.I. Rabi, quoted in Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, p. 779





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jtwitten's picture
On the other unfortunate hand, nothing demonstrates the superiority of science as a system for building knowledge and solving problems like the application of the scientific method to killing people and trying to save their lives.

Josh Witten | 06/24/09 | 06:49 AM
adaptivecomplexity's picture
True - the atomic bomb is a pretty much irrefutable demonstration of the scientific method. Vaccines and antibiotics are impressive demonstrations as well.


Michael White | 06/24/09 | 10:59 AM
logicman's picture
Atom - schmatom.  You can do science with a scroll mouse.  Just bring up that picture of an array of samples  and nudge the wheel to and fro.  Dancing yeast!  The instant optical illusion demonstrates the human visual processing system's insistence on seeing motion where there is none.

Patrick Lockerby | 06/24/09 | 12:22 PM

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