Curiosity is triggered by entertainment

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 4, 2015

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” Walt Disney PS: it reminds me of that, what Einstein once said: “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”


Turn the light on

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 3, 2015

“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 PS: Isn’t that terribly trivial? What do small kids ask their parents when they are afraid of darkness?….”Turn the light on”….. When the “light” is on we […]


The poetry of looking behind

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 3, 2015

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?” Richard P. Feynman


Monday’s motivation

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 2, 2015

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” Confucius


Count to three

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 1, 2015

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” Stephen Hawking


The character is everything!

Posted by concettinasfienti on February 28, 2015

“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.” Albert Einstein


The taste of sky

Posted by concettinasfienti on February 21, 2015

“Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up” Leonardo da Vinci


The wheel of doubt

Posted by concettinasfienti on February 9, 2015

“It is the courage to doubt what has long been established and the incessant search for its verification and proof that pushes the wheel of science forward.” Chien-Shiung Wu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYIJ5w5e9I


The greatest show after the Big Bang

Posted by concettinasfienti on February 8, 2015

“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!” George Gamow


Impossible? No, simply not yet done!

Posted by concettinasfienti on February 4, 2015

(image credit: ESA: http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/) “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” Robert A. Heinlein