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.
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.
Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically.
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
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