I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
Interpretation
Curiosity drives discovery and creativity.
Mary Leakey's quote reflects her passion for exploration and the importance of curiosity in the pursuit of knowledge. It emphasizes how digging into the unknown and being inquisitive can lead to significant discoveries and creative expressions, showcasing both her archaeological work and her artistic inclination to depict her findings.
In practice
In a lecture on the importance of curiosity in scientific research.
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.
Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again β but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.
The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not the same thing as saying they're incompatible. It's just that I think some of the traditional reasons for belief, going back thousands of years, are rather undermined.
The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.
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