Released in theaters two weeks apart in the summer of 2015, one movie, Tomorrowland, about positive attempts to make the planet’s real future better failed to attract audiences; while a second movie, Jurassic World, about dinosaurs trampling each other in an unrealistic future made the fastest billion dollars at the global box office in the […]
STORY 1: Circa 575 BC, Greece The Sick Man and the Doctor (Aesop’s Fable) Once upon a time a man fell ill. He called a doctor for a house-visit. The Doctor asked him how he was feeling. The sick man replied: “Fairly well, Doctor, but I find that I have been sweating a lot […]
“In science, each of us knows that what he has accomplished will be antiquated in ten, twenty, fifty years. That is the fate to which science is subject […] Whoever wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this fact.” – Max Weber, ‘Science as a Vocation’ (Wissenschaft als Beruf) Lecture at Munich University, […]