Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
From Gregory Benford
Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.
It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.
My brother Jim and I shared a womb without a view for nine months.
I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.
A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.
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