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Top 20 Websites Every Scientist (or engineer) ought to know | Zangani - http://www.zangani.com/node...
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"Top 20 Websites Every Scientist (or engineer) ought to know"
- Berci Mesko, MD
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scienceblogs has interesting posts and provocative discussions
- Mike Chelen
The person who made that list obviously has never used researchgate.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Brian: is that not what it does, or does it not do it well?
- Mike Chelen
Richard Feynman: Take the world from another point of view (video) - http://www.youtube.com/view_pl...
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"The enfant terrible of American physics describes how his sense of continuous wonder, his childlike curiosity about anything and everything, led him inevitably to a life in science. That the connecting link between curiosity and the Nobel Prize is comprised of perseverance and brilliance is made abundantly clear by Feynmans far-ranging and self-deprecating remarks, which again and again underscore how for him the most abstruse insights were—perfectly obvious."
- Amira
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Here is an abridged but otherwise unedited transcript of the sound track, with the comments and questions of the interviewer in italics: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/35...
- Amira
"It has to do with curiosity. It has to do with people wondering what makes something do something. And then to discover, if you try to get answers, that they are related to each other – that things that make the wind make the waves, that the motion of water is like the motion of air is like the motion of sand. The fact that things have common features. It turns out more and more universal. What we are looking for is how everything works. What makes everything work."
- Amira
"What happens first in history is that we discover the things that are on the face of it obvious. And then gradually we ask small questions, and then we dig in a little deeper into things that we need to do a little more complicated experiment to find out about. But it is curiosity as to where we are, what we are. It is very much more exciting to discover that we are on a ball, half of...
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- Amira
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