Dennis Flanagan quotes

“Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.”
-- Dennis Flanagan

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“It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism”
-- Dennis Flanagan

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“Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.”
-- Dennis Flanagan

Source : Dennis Flanagan (1988). “Flanagan's Version: A Spectator's Guide to Science on the Eve of the 21st Century”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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“Science is what scientists do.”
-- Dennis Flanagan

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“In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.”
-- Dennis Flanagan

Source : Dennis Flanagan (1988). “Flanagan's Version: A Spectator's Guide to Science on the Eve of the 21st Century”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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“Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.”
-- Dennis Flanagan

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“I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22

“The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“Kids are natural scientists.”

“Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.”

“Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.”

“A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.”

“The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.”