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Neanderthals (‘the people’ in the novel) are unfallen because, unlike the ‘new people’ (Homo sapiens), they cannot think, they can only imagine: ‘The Fall is thought’.
“La variabilidad genética en la naturaleza se obtiene por mutaciones, pero también existen mecanismos más complejos que pueden hacer que el ADN no cambie por un error de copia, sino en base a la adquisición de genes de otras especies. A esto le llamamos transferencia horizontal.”
― Transgénicos sin miedo: Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre ellos de la mano de la ciencia (Imago Mundi)
― Transgénicos sin miedo: Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre ellos de la mano de la ciencia (Imago Mundi)
“The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it.
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!”
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The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!”
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“We don’t need to understand why a rainbow or fogbow or glassbow is formed in order to appreciate its beauty, of course, but understanding the physics of rainbows does give us a new set of eyes (I call this the beauty of knowledge).”
― For the Love of Physics
― For the Love of Physics
“One way to think of architecture and construction engineering, then, is that they are the arts of battling the downward force to a standstill. We may think of certain feathery skyscrapers as having escaped gravity. They’ve done no such thing—they’ve taken the battle literally to new heights. If you think about it for a little while, you’ll see that the stalemate is only temporary. Building materials corrode, weaken, and decay, while the forces of our natural world are relentless. It’s only a matter of time.”
― For the Love of Physics
― For the Love of Physics
“play “Jingle Bells” on a wooden slide trombone in my class, and the students love it—I never tell them it’s the only tune I can play. In fact, I’m so challenged as a musician that no matter how many times I’ve given the lecture, I still have to practice beforehand. I’ve even made marks on the slide—notes, really—numbered 1, 2, 3, and so forth; I can’t even read musical notes. But as I said before, my complete lack of musical talent hasn’t stopped me from appreciating music’s beauty, or from having lots of fun experimenting with it.”
― For the Love of Physics
― For the Love of Physics
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