“Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.” IfsMenWorldLifeMightScienceDealsTrainingConscienceBe GoodProfessionPursueEngineeringExactnessExact Sciences Book:Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920 Source: Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920
“Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.” MayScienceDealsPracticeActivityIntellectualAccountsMathematicsStartingStatementsQueensAssumptionReasoningLogicalCountingMeasuringArithmeticTheoremsLogical Reasoning Author:Christopher Zeeman
“The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.” KnowsScienceDealsKnowledgeChiefsRoutineLaboratoryMeasurementHandicapsFilingLifelines Author:Charles Francis Richter
“Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.” WholeScienceDealsNumbersPhysicsChemistryChemicalsQuantity Book:Treatise on Thermodynamics Source: Treatise on Thermodynamics
“In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.” MindScienceDealsPracticeMeditationComputerConceptsBuddhistComputer ScienceSimultaneous Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.” EarthScienceDealsQualityBored Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayMeanTwoDifferentScienceReligionCultureSpaceResultsDealsFictionTechnologyLandStrangeRegardScience FictionStrangerIdeologyAliensCoincidenceFiction WritersDifferent CulturesStranger In A Strange Land Author:Orson Scott Card
“It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.” MadeReasonFactsHandsSciencePoetryChoicesImaginationDealsImaginePoetExerciseActivityDiscoveryLogicRhythmDataRejectionReasoningPoeticLeapSelectionImaginativeUnwiseCoherenceDiscovery In ScienceGeneralisation Author:Cecil Day-Lewis