Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
Category: science
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
I’m really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.