“The level of a man's intelligence is his ability to change.”
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
“Medicine is the most potent form of miracle, but when medicine prioritizes money over care, people flock to quacks and influencers. When science fails in service, people look up to the stars for answers.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers, science can produce solar panels or greenhouse gases. I'm not a scientist, I'm a humanitarian scientist, science doesn't make me human, I make science human.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Quantum thinking dissolves the illusion of fixed systems.”
“Unlike classical certainty, quantum systems describe likelihoods, not fixed outcomes.”
“Look, the basic facts are obvious," he said. "You can't keep growing forever on a finite planet---there are limits." But the exact relations among economic growth, environmental destruction, and planetary limits no longer seemed so obvious to me.”
Source: The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
“It’s not that plants are human, but that humans are just one kind of person, as are animals. Personhood means one has agency and volition, and the right to exist for their own sake.”
Source: The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
“Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.”
Source: Frankenstein (Or, The Modern Prometheus) - Rare Edition for Armed Services
“Will humanity be able to control AI?' - No. The real risk is human, not artificial. Additionally, control may be the wrong goal... Humans are already changing because AI exists. I believe.”