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# Fointama hilda

Fointama Hilda Aluma is a Cameroonian politician and advocate for education and women's empowerment. She serves as a senator representing the North-West Region of Cameroon. Here's a brief overview of her biography and some notable contributions
Quotes
"Education is not the preparation of life, education is life itself. Despising education is despising life itself
"The killing of two PhD holders in such a barbaric manner tells of how those behind the act care less about human life and to a great extent human resource in the development of a community like Belo and Boyo
"Empowering women is not just about giving them opportunities; it's about creating an environment where they can thrive and succeed."
# Emma Kantema-Gaomas

Emma Kantema-Gaomas (born 16 August 1978) is a Namibian politician who has been a member of the National Assembly for SWAPO since 2020. Since 2020, she has served as Deputy Minister of Sport, Youth and National Service.
# May Berenbaum

May Roberta Berenbaum (born July 22, 1953) is an American entomologist whose research focuses on the chemical interactions between herbivorous insects and their host plants, and the implications of these interactions on the organization of natural communities and the evolution of species. She is particularly interested in nectar, plant phytochemicals, honey and bees, and her research has important implications for beekeeping.

## Quotes

* I don't expect people to become entomologists or even necessarily to love bugs, but at least to think before reflexively stepping on them. They are just capable of the most amazing things, and many of the things that they do we couldn't survive on this planet without them doing.
** Interview: May Berenbaum (June 2007)
* The best thing people can do is to stop assuming that insects don’t belong on this planet and that it’s our job to destroy them. Insects have lived on Earth far longer than humans have, in many more different places, and they’ve found at least a million different ways to make a living here—we’re living on their planet, not the other way around. My hope is not that everyone will become an entomologist but that more people will appreciate insects for their amazing diversity and adaptability.
* Scientific knowledge helps people to understand and appreciate the world and all of its complexities; it’s the best insurance against irrational fear.
** The value of the little guy, an interview with Tyler Prize-winning entomologist May Berenbaum (April 6, 2011)
# David Berlinski

David Berlinski (born 1942) is an American author who has written books about mathematics and the history of science as well as fiction. An opponent of evolution, he is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, an organization dedicated to promulgating the pseudoscience of intelligent design.

## Quotes
### A Tour of the Calculus (1995)

All quotes from the trade paperback edition, published by Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-74788-5 (February 1997), 4th printing Italics as in the book
* A mathematical argument, once understood, is in its capacity to compel belief a miracle of enlightened life.
** A Note to the Reader (p. xvi)
* In the twelfth century, for example, Bhāskara demonstrated correctly that ${\sqrt {3}}$ + ${\sqrt {12}}$ = $3{\sqrt {3}},$ an achievement, I might add, utterly beyond the collective intellectual power, say, of the English department at Duke University. (It is pleasant to imagine members of the department sitting together in a long lecture hall, Marxists to one side, deconstructionists to the other, abusing one another roundly as they grapple with the problem.)
** Chapter 6, “Yo” (p. 38)
* Then he said what I knew—what I had always known—he would say. It is what the dead always say, and it is the only thing they say. “Remember me.”
** Chapter 15, “Prague Interlude” (p. 149)
* The derivative is an artifact, the first of the great concepts of modern science that fails conspicuously to correspond to anything in real life.
** Chapter 16, “Memory of Motion” (p. 165)
* Stepping forward, I step back, the two steps, one forward and one back, canceling one another so that after they have been completed, I am where I started, having done something but accomplished little, a useful metaphor for a great many activities in life.
** Chapter 20, “The Song of Igor” (p. 220)
* It is here, at this very moment when the first utterly trivial differential equation is solved, that the secret form of words is revealed that makes modern science possible.
** Chapter 20, “The Song of Igor” (p. 230)
* “Any idiot,” he said calmly but with immense conviction, “can learn anything in mathematics. It requires only patience.”
** Chapter 24, “The Integral Wishes to Become a Function” (p. 281; quoting Alonzo Church)
* I have written this book in isolation, hardly talking to a soul, but unoppressed as well by campus codes or creeds, free to say what I want and when I want. It is a measure of the degradation that has overtaken American academic life that I should feel obliged to boast of such circumstances.
** Acknowledgments (p. 313)
# Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman (born 15 August 1983) is a Russian-American computer scientist, podcaster, and artificial intelligence researcher. He is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, a podcast and YouTube series.

## Quotes

* "I think you have to try to walk in the middle, like, with the empathy and humility. And that's actually what science is about, is the. Is the humility."
** "Dr. Lex Fridman: Navigating Conflict, Finding Purpose & Maintaining Drive", on Huberman Lab, found on DeepCast (28 November 2022)
* I worry that we humans will discriminate against AI systems that clearly exhibit consciousness. That we will not allow AI systems to have consciousness. We'll come up with theories about measuring consciousness that will say that this is a lesser being. And I worry about that because maybe we humans will create something that is better than us humans in the way that we find beautiful, which is they have a deeper subjective experience of reality. Not only are they smarter, but they feel deeper. And we humans will hate them for it. As human history have shown, they'll be 'the other'. We'll try to suppress it. It will create conflict. It will create war. All of this. I worry about this too.
** "Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371" (at 2h23m16s), Lex Fridman podcast on YouTube, 13 April 2023.
* I think the best artists aren't doing it for the prize, they aren't doing it for the fame or the money. They're doing it because they love the art.
** "#435 - Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships" on Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (28 June 2024)
* I do think a good conversation requires [a duration of two, three, four, five hours], and I've been thinking a lot about why. I don't think it's just about needing the actual time of three hours to cover all the content. I think the longer form, with a hypothetical skilled conversationalist, relaxes things and allows people to go on tangents and to banter about the details, because I think it's in the details that the beautiful complexity of the person is brough to light.
** "Donald Trump Interview - Lex Fridman Podcast #442" (at 50m36s), Lex Fridman, 3 September 2024.
# L. Taylor Hansen

Lucile Taylor Hansen (November 30, 1897 – May 1976) was an American writer of science fiction and popular science articles and books who used a male writing persona for the early part of her career. She is the author of eight short stories, nearly sixty nonfiction articles popularizing anthropology and geology, and three nonfiction books.

## Quotes
### The Undersea Tube (1929)

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* If my friend the engineer had not told me the Tube was dangerous, I would not have bought a ticket on that fatal night, and the world would never have learned the story of the Golden Cavern and the City of the Dead. Having therefore, according to universal custom, first made my report as the sole survivor of the much-discussed Undersea Tube disaster to the International Committee for the Investigation of Disasters, I am now ready to outline that story for the world.
* Naturally I am aware of the many wild tales and rumors that have been circulated ever since the accident, but I must ask my readers to bear with me while I attempt to briefly sketch, not only the tremendous difficulties to be overcome by the engineers, but also the wind-propulsion theory which was made use of in this undertaking; because it is only by understanding something of these two phases of the Tube's engineering problems that one can understand the accident and its subsequent revelations.
* It will be recalled by those who have not allowed their view of modern history to become too hazy, that the close of the twentieth century saw a dream of the engineering world at last realized—the completion of the long-heralded undersea railroad. It will also be recalled that the engineers in charge of this stupendous undertaking were greatly encouraged by the signal success of the first tube under the English Channel, joining England and France by rail.
* However, it was from the second tube across the Channel and the tube connecting Montreal to New York, as well as the one connecting New York and Chicago, that they obtained some of their then radical ideas concerning the use of wind power for propulsion. Therefore, before the Undersea Tube had been completed, the engineers in charge had decided to make use of the new method in the world's longest tunnel, and upon that decision work was immediately commenced upon the blue-prints for the great air pumps that were to rise at the two ends—Liverpool and New York. However, I will touch upon the theory of wind-propulsion later and after the manner in which it was explained to me.
* No one who lived through that time will forget the thrill that quickened the pulse of mankind when the American group digging through a seam of old lava under what scientists call the "ancient ridge," broke into a sealed cavern which gleamed in the probing flashlights of the workers like the scintillating points of a thousand diamonds. But when they found the jeweled casket, through whose glass top they peered curiously down upon the white body of a beautiful woman, partly draped in the ripples of her heavy, red hair, the world gasped and wondered.
# Adam Grant

Adam M. Grant (born August 13, 1981) is an American popular science author, and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology.

## Quotes

* I don’t think there’s any skill more critical for success than resilience...I think about resilience as the speed and strength of your response to adversity.
** Quoted in "Why Wharton’s No. 1 professor recommends keeping a resume of your failures" CNBC News May 18, 2017
* Generosity is not a loan to repay or a debt to settle. It's a gift to appreciate. You reciprocate a favor by paying it back. You honor an act of kindness by paying it forward.
** Post on Twitter/X, September 28, 2021.
* "If you've ever had a boss who one day had your back and then the next day stabbed you in the back, or vice versa, that's a lot more stressful if we look at the research, than just having the boss who you knew was gonna stab you in the back."
** ""Narcissist, Taker, or A**hole" (with Adam Grant)" on HBO's Succession Podcast, found on DeepCast (25 October 2021)
* Young kids have wider circles of concern than adults. Adults expect people to enjoy the misfortune of groups they dislike. But 3-5-year-olds expect people to care about everyone's suffering. Compassion is an instinct—we don't have to learn it. We need to stop unlearning it.
** Post on Twitter/X, November 14, 2023.
* "Authenticity without boundaries is careless. Authenticity without empathy is selfish."
** "Dr. Adam Grant: How to Unlock Your Potential, Motivation & Unique Abilities" on Huberman Lab, found on DeepCast (27 November 2023)
* Think like a scientist: treat your opinions as hypotheses and decisions as experiments.
** Post on Twitter/X, December 9, 2023.
* Embrace confident humility: argue like you’re right, listen like you’re wrong.
** Post on Twitter/X, December 9, 2023.
* Time doesn't heal psychological wounds. Perspective does...Time creates distance. Reflection offers wisdom.
** Post on Twitter/X, December 15, 2023.
# Danny Hillis

William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, and writer who is particularly known for his work in computer science. He is best known as the founder of Thinking Machines Corporation, a parallel supercomputer manufacturer, and subsequently was a fellow at Walt Disney Imagineering. More recently, Hillis co-founded Applied Minds, the technology R&D think-tank.

## Quotes

* When I say things like "I want to build a machine that can be proud of me," that's not just a joke.
** "Project Tierra". youtube.com. January 27, 2011. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
# Olivia Judson

Olivia Judson (born 1970) is an evolutionary biologist and science writer.

## Quotes
### Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (2002)

All quotes from the UK trade paperback edition, published in 2002 by Vintage Books, ISBN 0-099-28375-1, 6th printing
* The battle of the sexes is no myth. Success at sexual reproduction is at the heart of the evolutionary process. But greater success for her often means less success for him. The upshot? An eternal war—and an astounding diversity of strategies.
** Part I, “Let Slip the Whores of War!” (p. 7)
* As we shall see, when females mate with more than one male, War capers nimbly through the boudoirs, imps of discord frolicking in his wake.
** Chapter 1, “A Sketch of the Battlefield” (p. 13)
* Boys, I’m afraid the way to a woman’s bed is often through her stomach.
** Chapter 3, “Fruits of Knowledge” (p. 42)
* If a proclivity for promiscuity is genetic, then yes, promiscuous behavior will become more common if loose females tend to have more children than their monogamous peers. That’s how natural selection works.
** Chapter 3, “Fruits of Knowledge” (p. 45)
* Natural selection, it seems, often smiles on strumpets. Sorry, boys.
** Chapter 3, “Fruits of Knowledge” (p. 59)
* You’ve just got a case of SINBAD: Single Income, No Babe, Absolutely Desperate.
** Chapter 4, “Swords or Pistols” (p. 65)
* I’m afraid that females in many species often provoke males into fighting over them. When the mood strikes, they make themselves conspicuous—then stand back and watch the battle, before mating with the winner.
** Chapter 4, “Swords or Pistols” (pp. 65-66)
* Indeed, natural selection discriminates against well-behaved losers.
** Chapter 7, “Crimes of Passion” (p. 117)
* Evolution does not obey human notions of morality, nor is human morality a reflection of some natural law. The deadly sins would be different if they mirrored evolutionary no-no’s. Lust, for one, would be deemed a virtue; chastity would be deplored.
** Chapter 7, “Crimes of Passion” (p. 120)
* Sex is any process that mixes genes from different individuals.
** Chapter 13, “Wholly Virgin” (p. 218)
# George Johnson (writer)

George Johnson (born January 20, 1952) is an American science writer and journalist, who writes a column for the New York Times.

## Quotes

* While Robert Welch opposed the United Nations for supposedly encouraging obeisance to the one-world conspiracy, McIntire's fundamentalists saw it as a "house of red Babel."
** Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics. 1983. p. 153.
* Even if you invoke vast geologic time, the series of fortuitous mutations leading to an eye, a kidney, or a brain seem too good to be true.
** Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order. 1995. p. 269.
* I shouldn't be fooled, some of his old colleagues told me, by the newer, mellower Murray. As I explored his past, I found that his reputation as an intellectual show-off was well earned. He had long been interested in almost everything—classical history, archaeology, linguistics, wildlife ecology, ornithology, numismatics, French and Chinese cuisine—and he was always ready to lure people into conversations where he could display the depth of his knowledge and, it sometimes seemed, the shallowness of their own. The breadth of his learning had become legendary.
** Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics. 1999. pp. 9–10.
* Build a quantum computer and problems long dismissed as hopeless would melt away. Imagine tapping a fundamental force of nature, not for the purpose of moving around matter but for moving around numbers—explosions of information. Quantum computing would be to ordinary computing what nuclear energy is to fire.
** A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer. 2003. p. 9.

## Quotes about Johnson

* George Johnson's Santa Fe office is packed floor to ceiling with century-old electrical paraphernalia — cathode-ray tubes, high-voltage spark coils, glass cylinders of hydrogen and helium, cascades of wires. They're the relics of an eBay odyssey he undertook to re-create a 1909 experiment by Robert Millikan measuring the charge on a single electron.
** Josie Glausiusz: (24 March 2008)"New Book Celebrates Singular Scientists and Their Beautiful Experiments". Wired Magazine.
* What a chronicler can do, if not share the pain, is observe and ponder and explicate, and Johnson delivers. He busts myths and clarifies realities about what seems to cause, or to help prevent, cancer.
** David Quammen: (6 September 2013)"Lives of the Cells (book review of Cancer Chronicles by George Johnson)". New York Times.
# Kate Marvel

Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and science writer based in New York City. She is a senior scientist at Project Drawdown and was formerly an associate research scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia Engineering's Department of Applied Physics and Mathematics.

## Quotes

* I refuse to give in to despair. I just don’t have time for that. I’m too busy doing science.
** "Investigating the Enigma of Clouds and Climate Change", Yale (August 17, 2017)
* I started my career as an astrophysicist, and then I realized that nowhere else in the universe is as good as here, right? This is the best planet.
** "Investigating the Enigma of Clouds and Climate Change", Yale (August 17, 2017)
* I love this planet, and I’m curious about how it works.
** Featured Faculty: Kate Marvel, Climate Society (October 1, 2019)
* (- Any tips or words of wisdom for our current and potential new students?) - Take advantage of the city! Moving from the West Coast, I found it hard to adjust to New York. And I won’t defend the weather, the subway, or the smell, but there are so many interesting people here. Go to parties, go see a friend-of-a-friend’s terrible show, say yes to weird things. You never know where life will take you here.
** Featured Faculty: Kate Marvel, Climate Society (October 1, 2019)
* I just asked a lot of really stupid questions to a lot of really patient people, and they were amazing. They were so generous with their time and so patient with my dumb questions. That’s how I learned, and I’m totally grateful for them.
# Don Lincoln

Don Lincoln (born 1964) is an American experimental physicist, science communicator, and author of popular books about physics. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

## Quotes

* Two well-regarded measurements for the expansion rate of the universe disagree, leaving cosmologists very puzzled. It may be that something large has been overlooked in our theory of the Big Bang. This discrepancy is called the Hubble tension and it has led to a very interesting conversation within the cosmology community.
** (April 2020)"Is Modern Cosmology in Crisis?". The Physics Teacher 58 (4). DOI:10.1119/1.5145465.
* The history of particle physics can be considered nothing less than a huge triumph for science. Over the course of a little more than a century of effort, our understanding of the world of atomic and subatomic physics went from a vague understanding of atoms, to one that is much more detailed. Early in this hundred-year-long period, we learned about electrons (1897), then how they circle a dense nucleus (1911), followed by the discovery of the protons (1917) and neutrons (1932) that form the nucleus. From the 1930s onward, researchers used both cosmic rays and particle accelerators to discover antimatter (1932), and particles that don’t exist in atoms (e.g., the muon [1936] and neutrino [1956], as well as a huge number of others).
** (October 2021)"Particle accelerators and their triumphant history". The Physics Teachwe 59 (7): 521–524. DOI:10.1119/10.0006457.
* One of the first scientific concepts taught to children is the idea that matter can be a solid, liquid, or gas. Indeed, if you were to ask most American adults how many phases of matter there are, the most likely answer you would get is three. It would not be unreasonable to consider this to be common knowledge. Yet the scientifically savvy know of far more phases of matter than the familiar three. Plasma is another, as is superfluid. And there are many more that exist at extreme temperatures or pressures. Change the conditions under which matter finds itself, and it will act in unexpected ways.
** (October 2024)"Quark/Gluon Plasma: When Protons Melt". The Physics Teacher 62: 550–554. DOI:10.1119/5.0235509.

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Don Lincoln on Wikipedia