Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
Interpretation
Understanding comes from the ability to replicate experiences or phenomena.
This quote emphasizes the importance of reproducibility in the scientific method. When a phenomenon can be reproduced, it signifies that the underlying principles are understood, allowing for deeper exploration and comprehension of that phenomenon. This forms a foundation for scientific inquiry and knowledge-building.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a scientific conference where researchers discuss their findings.
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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