Know This Quotes

“If it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. The very definition of news is ‘something that hardly ever happens.”
― John Brockman (Ed.), Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments – Pulitzer and Nobel Prize Winners from Edge.org

“Choice is simply a fanciful shorthand for biological processes we do not yet apprehend.”
― John Brockman, Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments – Pulitzer and Nobel Prize Winners from Edge.org

“This isn't tolerable for the democracy in the increasing technological world. The most significant example is climate change, it turns out, for instance, that many basic terms are unintelligible for newspaper readers.

Recently I encountered a statement that theory is just a guess, and that includes evolution, not mentioning what was reconstructed by cosmologists about formation of the universe

When new data is published that includes the correction or expansion of the previous work this is taken to indicate weakness rather than great strength of scientific work as an open system, always subject to correction by the new information.

When the winter temperature dips below freezing, you hear - this proves that the Earth is not warming. Most Americans are not clear on the difference between weather and climate.”
― John Brockman, Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments – Pulitzer and Nobel Prize Winners from Edge.org

“We are entering the Age of Awareness, marked by machine intelligence everywhere.”
― John Brockman, Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments – Pulitzer and Nobel Prize Winners from Edge.org

“Most people agree that life is better than death, health better than disease, prosperity better than poverty, knowledge better than ignorance, peace better than war, safety better than violence, freedom better than coercion. That gives us a set of yardsticks by which we can measure whether progress has actually occurred.”
― John Brockman, Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments – Pulitzer and Nobel Prize Winners from Edge.org