“Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown.”
- Humphrey Davy
“Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.”
- Jacob Brownowski
Astronomers believe a mystery object that gave off 40 visible light flares is a magnetar, which would neutralize all credit cards on Earth from a distance halfway to the moon.
Artist’s Impression of a Magnetar
Credit: ESO/L.Calcada
One way to preserve our fishery commons is to use catch shares, where all fisherman are allowed to take a share of the total fishing limit rather than opening a season where all fisherman race to deplete the commons.
Our brains grow less responsive to dopamine as we grow older, meaning life loses its thrill and we mellow out.
“Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.”
- Isaac Asimov
“It can’t be Nature, for it is not sense.”
- Charles Churchill
“Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.”
- Juvenal
Hmmmm… Maybe the reason we are finding traces of pharmaceuticals in our drinking water has something to do with the 250 Million Pounds of drugs flushed every year by the medical industry.
