Scientist Quotes

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!
My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.
My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.
Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
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