“The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.” WantScienceDiseaseAnxietySensationsDiagnosisIndigestionHypochondriac Book:Zoonomia; Or The Laws of Organic Life Source: Zoonomia; Or The Laws of Organic Life
“As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.” KindScienceUniverseEvolutionAnxietyAddAweGet OverScience And Religion Author:Francis Collins
“Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.” HumansScienceForceNatureAnxietyLogicAccountsMethodOperationsAnalysisCosmosLogicalDemonstratingPredictabilityMateriality Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.” WorldScienceModernParticularAnxietyMathematicsAdmireApplicationAnxiousTheoremsCulminationApex Author:George Polya
“The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow.” PeopleYearsFirstsAgeEarthScienceFoundLordMillionsThousandAnxietyTransformationMereClockScoreAnxiousCapitalistTransformedCautiousGeologist Author:William Johnson Sollas
“Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.” MenMindImportantScienceValuesHateDoubtGreaterMagicVictoryFitIntegrityDespairAnxietyTasksOptimismFunctionPessimismUnrequited LoveUnrequitedPoiseSteadfastnessVacillation Author:Bronislaw Malinowski
“We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.” GodScienceGivenFearAnxietyScientistBombsAtomic Bomb Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties-all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.” DoneTodaySciencePoliticalUsedCultureUnderstandingModernTheoryAnxietyConceptsScientistFamiliarEducatedErasExploitsRelativityGeneral PublicIdeologuesRiftModern Era Author:David C. Cassidy
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.” LoveLifeGodScienceDeathFearRiskAnxietySuicideAccidentsDeath And DyingFear Of DeathRelativityBeing AfraidRisk ItDying DeathAfraid Of DeathSomeone DyingUnjustifiedFear Of Dying Author:Albert Einstein
“Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I expect that's the dominating feeling. It gets to be rather a fever... At age 60, when asked about his feelings on discovering the Dirac equation.” FirstsWellsFeelingsAgeScienceAnxietyDiscoveringBiographiesEquationsFeverDominating Author:Paul Dirac
“In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.” MindSelfScienceAnxietyResearchScientistSatisfactionCollectivesAgonyDissatisfactionRestlessnessEnquirySelf-satisfactionPersonal Satisfaction Author:Jacques Monod