12 JUN 2012 by ideonexus

 What is a Scientist?

What is a scientist?… We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.
Folksonomies: nature science
Folksonomies: nature science
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One so in love with nature as to lose oneself in exploring it.

19 JAN 2012 by ideonexus

 The Opposite of a Deep Truth is Also a Deep Truth

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.
Folksonomies: philosophy truth
Folksonomies: philosophy truth
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Quote from Niels Bohr.