“Those who do not welcome scrutiny have no intention of ever becoming more than nothing”
Source: The Sciences of Change: Anyone can create meaningful change. It starts with authenticity
“To be human is to change”
Source: The Sciences of Change: Anyone can create meaningful change. It starts with authenticity
“Berhenti bercita-cita adalah tragedi terbesar dalam hidup manusia”
Source: Sang Pemimpi
“Once we lose touch of our human curiosity, it becomes very difficult to ever build back an appreciation for the fact we actually know very little”
Source: The Sciences of Change: Anyone can create meaningful change. It starts with authenticity
“In any interaction, indeed in life itself, our intentions – as in, our authentic purpose - is all that matters to anyone. Not our words. Our deeds.”
Source: The Sciences of Change: Anyone can create meaningful change. It starts with authenticity
“Home is wherever you can feel safe, loved, nurtured and wanted, yet not needed.”
Source: The Sciences of Change: Anyone can create meaningful change. It starts with authenticity
“[Edward Teller} had “the most important kvestion of all”. Leaning closer, he said, “Vill you be villing to vork on veapons?”
Unbidden, images from Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove leaped to mind. But Teller had impressed me as a deep, reflective man. I said I would—occasionally, at least. I had grown up deep in the shadow of the Cold War. My father was a career army officer, and I had spent six years living with my family in occupied post-war Japan and Germany. It seemed to me that the best, indeed the only, way to avoid strategic conventional war, whose aftermath I had seen in shattered Tokyo and Berlin. ....
That afternoon began my long, winding involvement with modern science and fiction, the inevitable clash of the noble and imaginary elements in both science and fiction with the gritty and practical. I have never settled emotionally the tensions between these modes of thinking. Growing up amid the shattered ruins of Germany and Japan, with a father who had fought through World War II and then spent long years occupying the fallen enemy lands, impressed me with the instability of even advanced nations. The greatest could blunder the most.”
Source: New Legends
“Quetelet had introduced a radically new way of thinking about human beings. As one of his admirers put it, 'Man is seen to be an enigma only as an individual, in mass, he is a mathematical problem.' Quetelet's successors took his ideas in many different directions. For one thing, his work was valuable politically because it could be interpreted in different ways. While conservatives insisted that little could be done to alter the current system, radicals accused governments of impeding the natural course of progress, and Utopians--such as Karl Marx--envisaged harmonious societies governed by nature's own laws guaranteeing improvement. Data collection projects proliferated, and statisticians searched for laws governing every aspect of life, ranging from the weather to the growth of civilization, from stock market fluctuations to the incidence of disease. Many scientists took their ideas from Quetelet rather than from abstract textbooks--but they added their own twist. Whereas Quetelet regarded individual deviations from the norm as errors to be eliminated, scientists set out to study how variations occur.”
Source: Science: A Four Thousand Year History
“Climate Change is the politicization of science”
“For most of the twentieth century, scientists were allied with whalers; much of their research was done either on the flensing deck or on the occasional stranded whale. Taxes levied on whale oil from the lucrative British Antarctic Territory financed extensive research in the Southern Ocean, including the natural history voyages of the RRS Discovery, the explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic vessel. Until the 1970s the expressed intent of this research was to gather biological knowledge to help the hunt. In some cases, the studies were intended to increase efficiency.”
Source: Whale