/sci/ - Science & Math

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss attention it deserves." Albert Einstein.

>>2532026
maybe that comes close

but could Albert make a hobby out of it?

"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."

>>2532057
"Of all faggots there is none greater than OP"

>>2532057
>>but could Albert make a hobby out of it?

I think this illustrates how /sci/ and /lit/ will have to fundamentally disagree on most topics

>>2532071
maybe

but wouldn't it be dull if we agreed on anything?

"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."

>>2532063

>mfw

Hey guys I found this quote from Whitehead that sums up /lit/ and /sci/ beautifully; "Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. "

>>2532063
>>2532089
how can you be entertained with something so trite?

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

>>2532100
oh!

beautiful!

it is cynicism at its best!

if a thing can still be said to be cynical

>>2532113
I find /lit/ a strange and disturbing world, yet one I would be interested to explore.

I share, as far as I can tell, no common ground. The closest I could come to meeting alien life.

>>2532123
funny

that's how i often feel about /sci/

i think we really are of two different worlds

one largely conceptual

and one largely analytic

one eccentric

and one intelligent

/lit/ is one average, pretentious clusterfuck

>>2532133
>>2532133
doubles are truth

>>2532133
contrary to public opinion

one cannot be both average and pretentious

i think if mr. wilde had seen the invention of the internet, myspace, and facebook, he would've changed his opinion.

>>2532140
no i think you're wrong

he was never concerned with being right

only witty

and they are only similar, nothing more

>>2532141

one can only be average and pretentious

if you got it you don't have to fake it

>>2532133
>implying /sci/ isn't just the same.

>>2532057
>>2532009

I'm going to admit it; I don't get either of them. Explain?

Here is something much more witty said by a scientific mind,

The reason why a function cannot be its own argument is that the sign for a function already contains the prototype of its argument, and it cannot contain itself. For let us suppose that the function F(fx) could be its own argument: in that case there would be a proposition 'F(F(fx))', in which the outer function F and the inner function F must have different meanings, since the inner one has the form O(f(x)) and the outer one has the form Y(O(fx)). Only the letter 'F' is common to the two functions, but the letter by itself signifies nothing. This immediately becomes clear if instead of 'F(Fu)' we write '(do) : F(Ou) . Ou = Fu'.

(if you don't get the pun you suck)

>>2532151
Wilde exclaims that a useless truth is a virtue

Moliere pronounces that a virtue is often a worthless truth

>>2532150

i don't think it is

i've been around both long enough to know the difference

scientists tend to be less pretentious

it's in the nature of the discipline

you can't really fake the laws of physics

>>2532162
but that's is what wit is

knowing nothing and appearing to know everything, and loving every part of it

[spoiler]by god i'm fucking brilliant tonight, eh?[spoiler]

>>2532156
say that again

this time, try to sound a little less intelligent and only slightly clever

>>2532167

The most sure sign that someone is not brilliant is when they proclaim that they are.

>>2532181
but only a fool would wish to be truly brilliant

>>2532185

>>2532172

Its a very clever way to solve Russell's paradox and shook up the foundations of mathematics and logic.It was proposed by Ludwig WITtgenstein.

Queers?

>>2532196
ahh Wittgenstein

I have not yet gone near the man

i will admit that he has place in neither my canon nor my heart

>>2532214

But he was gay, so you must admit him into your canon.

>>2532214
Sing it from the heart

>>2532227
was he?

but i still can't make my mind up

is that shallow of me?

to ask for something deeper?

>>2532229
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>>2532195
well it's nice to know that /sci/ is more human than it lets on

it can still partake in a good fag hunt

/lit/izen here.
I also like this thread

>>2532233
....apparent luminosity in visible light of a star as seen at the interstellar distance of 10 parsecs, or bolometric magnitude corresponding to bolometric luminosity. In contrast, apparent brightness is related to the distance by an inverse square law.

>>2532156
you proved op's point...

>>2532241
well that i can understand to a point

>>2532240
do you?

i bet if we were there now this thread would have dissolved into a circle jerk or a public slaying

you hate me for the strangest reasons

>>2532214

He will really test your grasp on just what knowledge and language really are. He was an intellectual of the highest degree.

>>2532329
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

>>2532329
so you would recommend?

i am curious now, so lets make this thread worthwhile

which works are part of /sci/'s canon?

>>2532349
Read Textbooks faggot!
GTFO!

>>2532349
>/lit/

>>2532009
>/lit/

>>2532009

>>2532372
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>>2532384
oh nevermind

i misjudged you /sci/

i thought you might be something other than intelligent

i suppose i was wrong, which does happen now and again

>>2532349

For me its Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, Truth and Method, Laboratory Life, All Life is Problem Solving, Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Against Method, The History of Madness, The Birth of the Clinic, The Birth of Biopolitcs. Along with science texts and journals.

But I am a philosopher of science not a scientific researcher (anymore) I decided I was interested in how science is made more than performing science.

>>2532349
How Experiments End, by Peter L. Galison

>>2532392

>>2532394
interesting choices

i suppose you are exceptional though

i might visit in the future

but at the time i am homesick

so goodbye!

>>2532009
There is plenty of useless information. With each new scientific discovery more useless information is attained. Why does it matter that there is a star 500 billion light years away?

>>2532406

>>2532410

>>2532410
sage