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Ao recompensar um cientista que detecta os erros de outro – uma tarefa que a natureza humana faz com muito mais facilidade do que discernir seus próprios erros – os cientistas como grupo criaram um sistema inato de autocorreção.
Neil deGrasse Tyson • Origens: Catorze bilhões de anos de evolução cósmica (Portuguese Edition)
Notice, however, that Einstein isn’t arguing for the plurality of truth. Rather, he is saying that from any specific position, there will still be one and only one true measurement of the motion of an object, and that that one true measurement is calculable and in no sense open to negotiation.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
Everything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology, for example, is that everything that animals do, atoms do. In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. This
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
cosmos, mas também enfatizou que temos uma tendência natural para acreditar que entidades misteriosas e vagamente percebidas regem o universo, versadas num conhecimento que podemos, quando muito, vislumbrar apenas em parte.
Neil deGrasse Tyson • Origens: Catorze bilhões de anos de evolução cósmica (Portuguese Edition)
Jacob Falkovich • Review: How to Not Die Alone
La donnée est la matière première de l’information, qui elle-même va nourrir la connaissance. Plus on parvient à isoler quelque chose, à regarder l’infiniment petit, mieux on peut comprendre. C’est pour cela que les physiciens passent des mois à observer le boson de Higgs dans l’accélérateur de particules du CERN – ce boson est, à ce jour, l’entité
... See moreFrançois Taddei • Apprendre au XXIe siècle (French Edition)
A mind-expanding tour of the cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Robert Krulwich
youtube.comPlato and Aristotle make a neat distinction between having an opinion and possessing convincing scientific arguments in support of it. I think that the average educated European or American of today knows that the Earth is round, but is probably not able to offer direct and convincing proof of this belief. His level of scientific understanding, at
... See moreCarlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
He was thus able to enunciate his law of universal gravitation: “Every body attracts every other with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.” From this formula he was able to deduce everything in planetary theory: the motions of the planets and their satell
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