Cherry Blossoms and Japanese Culture
To the Japanese, Cherry blossoms have meaning beyond their beauty and beyond their value as a producer of delicious fruit. It is interesting to note that the Japanese love their cherry tree so much they also eat the leaves and blossoms. Cherry blossoms mean a number...
Linus Pauling: A Working Man
“The scientist, if he is to be more than a plodding gatherer of bits of information, needs to exercise an active imagination. The scientists of the past whom we now recognize as great are those who were gifted with transcendental imaginative powers, and the part...
Edward O. Wilson and the Tenets of Biology
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to organism to population to ecosystem. The second dimension is the diversity of all species in the biosphere. The third...
Sir Alister Hardy and Phytoplankton
“There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the...
Magnus Pyke Distinguishes Science Strands
If it squirms, it’s biology. If it stinks, it’s chemistry. If it doesn’t work, it’s physics. And if you can’t understand it, it’s mathamatics. — Magnus Pyke Magnus Pyke obviously has a great sense of humor. Anyone who has worked in...
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