Reads tagged with “science”
A Pioneering Case for the Value of Citizen Science from the Polymathic Astronomer John Herschel
“There is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge.”
Through the First Antarctic Night: A Pioneering Polar Explorer on the Resilience of the Human Spirit
“There was a naked fierceness in the scenes, a boisterous wildness in the storms, a sublimity and silence in the still, cold dayless nights, which were too impressive to be entirely overshadowed by the soul-despairing depression.”
How Nature Works, in Stunning Psychedelic Illustrations of Scientific Processes and Phenomena from a 19th-Century French Physics Textbook
A scrumptious quest “to satisfy that invincible tendency of our minds, which urges us on to understand the reason of things.”
Eating the Sun: A Lovely Illustrated Celebration of Wonder, the Science of How the Universe Works, and the Existential Mystery of Being Human
“When one is considering the universe, unseen matter, our small backyard of the stuff, I think it is important, sensible even, to try and find some balance between laughter and uncontrollable weeping.”
Trailblazing 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Social Change and the Life of the Mind
“Reformers are apt to forget… that the world is not made up entirely of the wicked and the hungry, there are persons hungry for the food of the mind, the wants of which are as imperious as those of the body.”
Does Your Dog Really Love You and What Does That Really Mean? A Journey in Cognitive Science and Moral Philosophy
“Our inability to read dogs’ emotions well probably begins with our inability to understand our own emotions well.”
Ancestor Worship with Mother Nature: How Indigenous Death Rituals Illuminate the Web of Life
“For almost all oral cultures… the body’s decomposition into soil, worms, and dust can only signify the gradual reintegration of one’s ancestors and elders into the living landscape, from which all, too, are born.”
Underland: An Enchanting Journey into the Hidden Universe Beneath Our Feet
“Into the underland we have long placed that which we fear and wish to lose, and that which we love and wish to save.”
Faster Than Light: Marilyn Nelson Reads Her Exquisite Poem About the Purpose of Life and How Our Impermanence Both Frustrates and Fuels Our Creative Drive
“…a handful of dust trying to get back to supernova. Like every longing, everything alive.”
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