As much as 50% of the body’s heat vents at the top, so if you need to cool down, use your head.
 
A flea can jump 130 times its height. That’s impressive, but a human can think of itself 131 times better than it is. So there!
 
Karl Popper has said that, ”Science is a history of corrected mistakes.” Carl was mostly wrong. Science is the history of corrected corrections. Science is forever getting there — but not quite. 

Science is the insane tinkering needed to get sane.

Science wants to understand – and be paid.

 Science is competition.  Note all the who-gets-the-credit squabbling.

Through peer reviews of published  data the community holds science’s nose to the truth grindstone.

 A child peers into a flower and an astronomer peers into a telescope — curiousity.

Sailing blinkered over the shaking earth and into the pyroclastic fires, this is the way the curious have always died — and bravely lived.

The geologists who were stabilists became mobilists after the earth moved out from under them, so all who survive discover their own beautiful transience.

First bacteria,  then plants, then insects, then fruits, then herbivores and carnivores — life has a classic way of recovering from devastation.

The real business of the earth is carried out below us, in the subduction zone where moving materials collide and one tectonic plate slips below another, so the real business of a soul occurs deep in the psyche where one motive slips under another and the hot and rolling magna of the self boils upward into relationships.

Scientific measurement is always something along the line of the master chef’s pinch.

Science without ethics is like a war without uniforms; bystanders are going to get blown away.

Albert Einstein has said that, ”Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”  I think he meant to add, doctors excepted.

We often make our decisions based on past anchor decisions, but science suggests we hoist anchors and ply new waters.