You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.
Interpretation
Money is essential for scientific research and progress, and sacrificing for it is a part of the journey.
In this quote, Carl Hart emphasizes the significance of funding in the field of science, suggesting that financial resources are crucial for conducting research and advancing knowledge. He acknowledges that lacking money can hinder scientific endeavors, and accepting this reality is part of the dedication required to pursue impactful scientific work.
In practice
In a presentation on the challenges faced by scientists today.
Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you've been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they're the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.
Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.
In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then food shortages would take us under. Now I believe we have a little longer.
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.
We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
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