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Il y a toujours eu des hommes pour défendre les droits de l'irrationnel.

Comprendre le monde pour un homme, c'est le réduire à l'humain

Car en affirmant que tout est vrai, nous affirmons la vérité de l'affirmation oppo-sée et par conséquent la fausseté de notre propre thèse (car l'affirmation opposée n'ad-met pas qu'elle puisse être vraie). Et si l'on dit que tout est faux, cette affirmation se trouve fausse, elle aussi.

Cette révolte de la chair, c'est l'absurde

Vivre, naturellement, n'est jamais facile.

J'en vois d'autres qui se font paradoxalement tuer pour les idées ou les illusions qui leur donnent une raison de vivre (ce qu'on appelle une raison de vivre est en même temps une excellente raison de mourir).

The concept of localizing individual molecules with high precision is closely linked to Heisenberg's work on uncertainty in the 1930s, but its mathematical (and computational) treatment was put into a formalistic framework only more than 50 years later.

.., superresolution fluorescence techniques are classified according to the approach by which they introduce or achieve the subdiffraction limit. .., they can be grouped into two main categories: techniques that introduce the subdiffraction limit by spatially patterned excitation and techniques that go beyond the diffraction limit implementing single-molecule imaging.

The shortest visible light wavelength is at about λ = 400 nm (blue-violet light); thus, according to the Abbe limit, the smallest lateral resolution that can be achieved in a conventional microscope is d≈ 200 nm.

.., the PSF size determines the resolu-tion of the microscope, and it is well known that the FWHM of the PSF in the lateral directions x and y, i.e., perpendicular to the optical axis,..

Recently the discovery of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and its different color protein variants ... has significantly expanded the fluorescence imaging field by the development of so-called indirect fluorescence imaging methods that are based on genetic manipulation to induce fluorescence contrast, i.e., the introduction of a gene into a cell that encodes it for a fluorescent protein (FP).

There are two main criteria for classifying fluorescence imaging methods: the first one is the size of the object to be imaged and the second one is based on the contrast mechanism employed to obtain the image.

Fluorescence imaging is the visualization of fluorescence radiation emitted at different wavelengths by molecules present in a given sample that has been illuminated by incident photons. Thus, the color image of the fluorescence radiation obtained with a sufficient resolution provides a map of fluorophore distribution within the investigated object.

L'homme qui, par l'étude, acquiert une juste connaissance des choses s'élève et s'enrichit, alors que l'ignorant reste pauvre et de basse condition.

"What is it about the ancients, Pinker asks at one point, 'that they couldn't leave us an interesting corpse without resorting to foul play?

There is an obvious response to this: doesn't it rather depend on which corpse you consider interesting in the first place?

...encore aujourd'hui, au cours de mes nuits d'insomnie, j'entends souvent la voix à l'accent parisien celui des rues en pente me dire: " Alors, vous trouvez votre bonheur?"

The lateral and axial resolution of an LSFM apparatus are limited by the detection and illumination optics, respectively

Must a society suppress homicide to accomplish genocide?

...groups with highly hostile interactions with neighbors tend to have minimal internal conflict. Or, to spin this another way, groups with high levels of internal conflict are too distracted to focus hostility on the Others.

"The group is more arrogant, hypocritical, self-centered and more ruthless in the pursuit of its ends than the individual."

Squid are not great swimmers com-pared with sailfish (maximum speed: sixty-eight miles per hour). But they're damn good for something whose great-great-grandparents were mollusks.

This is so wrong - foolishly pick a poor family to be born into...

... malnutrition impairs brain development

...I think there was evolutionary selection for delayed frontal cortex maturation.

Obviously, the adolescent years are not just about organising baker sales to fight global warming

Despite all our limitations, however, I have to say we have come a remarkably long way. We are the first species on our planet that has taken evolution into its own hands. No longer are we selected by our natural environment, we shape the environment to our own needs. Whether we are any good at this is another question.

The most reasonable explanation of consciousness, it seems to me, is that it's related to the way some systems-like brains-process information. We don't know exactly how to define this process, but this almost certainly means that consciousness isn't binary.

...much of the supposed weirdness of quantum mechanics just comes from forcing it into everyday language.

To me, quantum mechanics is the prime example for what can go wrong with using intuitive language for abstract math.

I am very much a math person, and personally I don't see the need to translate math into everyday language. Abstract mathematical structures, I think, are best dealt with on their own terms. They don't need to be interpreted, and they don't need to make intuitive sense. They don't have to be "like" anything else because in most cases, they are not. The whole reason we use this math is that there isn't anything else