Experimenting With Life

beautiful article…in a day when govts can spend trillions on explosives, not a penny for a just cause #sad

(via The Crisis of Big Science by Steven Weinberg | The New York Review of Books)

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“Life will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein

Lovely poster for NASA’s One Hundred Year Starship Program, in the vein of Einstein’s famous thoughts on rationality vs. intuition.  

(ᔥ curiosity counts)

Science on the Rampage by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books

Battle of the dreamers vs researchers. The article rightly brings out the need for dreams to conjure abstract visions that can be tamed down to the real world of experimentation. For these men and women they hang between the science and literature community. Former considers them amateurish, while the latter considers them too rigid. The world generally recalls them as genius.

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“Systematic wonder,” visualized.