Random Thoughts About Science

[Duncy Dumbass II]

Does the chip go in the brain? Or...does the brain go into the chip?

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Does the chip go in the brain? Or...does the brain go into the chip?

Saw open your skull, put your brain in a woodchipper, and put the output back in your head and you too can be a Republican!

 

[Duncy Dumbass II]

Saw open your skull, put your brain in a woodchipper, and put the output back in your head and you too can be a Republican!

That sounds angry and scary. Someone must be found in the wreckage, brother.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

That sounds angry and scary. Someone must be found in the wreckage, brother.

Naw scrambling the brain allows for greater use of reason and objectivity. That allows the logic to better flow from one neuron to the other. Scientists will tell you different, but that's because they're all leftists.

 

[Hypatia]

Calm discussions about physics as a science with minimal finger-pointing.

 

[Trenton]

science makes people crazy one day

 

[typologyenthusiast]

Carl Friedrich Gauss, an 18th-19th century German mathematician, known for discovery of normal distribution.

"Mathematics is the queen of Sciences "

What does Gauss actually mean by that?

 

[Red Herring]

Carl Friedrich Gauss, an 18th-19th century German mathematician, known for discovery of normal distribution.

What does Gauss actually mean by that?

(At least that's how I'd interpret the quote. Of course "real" science was still in its infancy in many regards in the days of Gauss, but as far as I know he worked on both purely theoretical and very specific practical problems - he was a real polymath and left so much more than just Gaussian distribution! So in that regard it also makes sense - mathematics as the foundation of everything else)

EDIT: I just googled it and the full quote seems to be "Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmatics is the queen of mathematics" and the main source for it is someone saying that Gauss had used those words - a year after his death.

 

[Coriolis]

EDIT: I just googled it and the full quote seems to be "Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmatics is the queen of mathematics" and the main source for it is someone saying that Gauss had used those words - a year after his death.

I have always thought of mathematics as the language of science.