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De surcroît, alors que la guerre nucléaire et le changement climatique menacent uniquement la survie physique de l’humanité, des technologies de rupture pourraient changer la nature même de l’humanité et sont donc enchevêtrées avec les croyances éthiques et religieuses les plus profondes des êtres humains.
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
the laboratory already intuit that most ideas don’t pan out, and those that do sometimes result from chance or charitable interpretations. Conversely, they also recognize that replicability means they’re really onto something.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
Scientific realism in physics Realism in physics (especially quantum mechanics) is the claim that the world is in some sense mind-independent: that even if the results of a possible measurement do not pre-exist the act of measurement, that does not require that they are the creation of the observer (contrary to the "consciousness causes collapse" i
... See moreFor the next four years, he struggled to turn that happy thought into a coherent theory. Simple mathematics couldn’t deal with the audacity of his insight. Specifically, simple mathematics couldn’t handle the accelerating reference frames that he imagined.
In 1912, he took a professorship in theoretical physics at ETH Zurich, where he reconnected wi
... See morePacky McCormick • Most Human Wins
he explores this psychology The True Believer (1951). It might seem from that title that Hoffer is talking about something quite similar, if not identical, to the kind of delusion Marian Keech’s followers suffered from. But it is not so dramatic; it is perhaps even less dramatic than the sort of thing that prompts a South Sea Bubble, most participa
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