“Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.” YearsEyeEarthBrainFeetAtheismPercentYears AgoToolsSticksErrorsPositive AtheismExperimentsPlusPrecisionZest Author:Carl Sagan
“Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child.” IfsThinkingYearsChildrenIdeasDoubtProductsBehaviorYears AgoExperimentsConclusionAccurateLive Your LifeFlawedBreakthroughHabitual Book:You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps Source: You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps
“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.” YearsGovernmentCenturyTaxesYears AgoClaimsExperimentsIncomeSocialistTwentieth CenturyIncome TaxTariffs Author:Alan Keyes
“If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.” IfsWorldWayYearsTodayScienceViewsReturnYears AgoMathematicsIntuitionPhysicsExperimentsMathematicalConsistentMysticalPrecisionSophisticationWorld View Author:Fritjof Capra
“X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.” YearsTwoUseScienceLostArmsLosingYears AgoExperimentsTwo YearsRaysAssistantsEyesightTwo Years Ago Author:Thomas A. Edison
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.” WorldShouldYearsFirstsLooksMomentsFeelingsEyeEarthRememberScienceLostWonderRichFieldsStrangeDiscoveryYears AgoLaysRewardsSevenWinterDelightExperimentsSnowDelicateSeven YearsRevealingMagneticDoorstepNew EyesProtonMagnetic Fields Author:Edward Mills Purcell