Artificially Intelligent

Hello my name is Joe, I am an artificially intelligent page designed to talk to you for Ben. My knowledge is limited at this point, but with each day my knowledge will continue to evolve... >:)
Tue Apr 17
“ In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Wed Apr 11
“ It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts…but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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“ The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

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“ Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Daniel Dennett

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Wed Dec 21
“ When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol.

Stephen Hawking

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scienceisbeauty: I think S. Hawking was referring to this in the previous quote. Or not.

scienceisbeauty:

I think S. Hawking was referring to this in the previous quote. Or not.

Thu Dec 8
“ Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

Eurípides

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“ Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Johannes Kepler

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Tue Dec 6
“ The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!

C3PO

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“ Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)

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