out of the immensity

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The pleasure of working as a scientist is having another series of methods to see how the world around us works. That’s how people should be taught science as young children: a way to approach the world. It’s so much fun that people would use it their whole lives whether or not they go into science.

Saul Perlmutter, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics, in 2009 (via jtotheizzoe)

Relevant.

(Source: jtotheizzoe, via approachingsignificance)

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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton…In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

- Richard Dawkins

(found via: Caroline)

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In honor of World AIDS days, here is the abstract for a journal article published 2 days ago about the potential role gene therapy could play in the prevention of HIV transmission. (click the image)

(via Nature)

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hey guys, this is why science is very, very important.

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Applying for summer neuroscience internships is pretty intimidating…

But, as the great cyclist and philosopher Jens Voigt said: “in case of doubt, just go… if you try to win, you might lose. If you don’t try to win, you lose for sure…”

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Curiosity.

(Source: wnycradiolab)

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

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The Most Astounding Fact - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

(Source: youtube.com)

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Applying for summer neuroscience internships is pretty intimidating…