Engineer Brad Saviello says a textbook his old college professor wrote included a quote at the end of each chapter. Out of the Ooze Reader Jerry Palmer sees a future that is truly revolutionary. Our puny brains working on carbon-based life soon will be eclipsed by life based on silicon and metallic hydrogen. Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. Physicist Phillip C. Kalmanson of the University of North Carolina says filling in the details leads to more questions, which spawn more science, which leads to more discoveries.
Discovery begets more discovery, and science marches on.
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