It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic … - Frederick Seitz

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Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.

Frederick Seitz

It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such endeavors and the evolution of associated instrumentation, initially of purely scientific interest, most of the investigations that lead to the basic equations of electromagnetism would have been missed. . . . We would have been deprived of electromagnetic machinery as well as knowledge of electromagnetic waves.

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A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

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Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

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Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.

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It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. . . . It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations. . . . we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.

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This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful. . . agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.

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