90% Of The Mass In Your Body

Now, Since The Time Of Newton There Had Been A Debate About Whether Light Was A Wave - That Is, A Traveling Disturbance In Some Background Medium - Or A Particle, Which Travels Regardless Of The Presence Of A Background Medium. The Observation Of Maxwell That Electromagnetic Waves Must Exist And That Their Speed Was Identical To That Of Light Ended The Debate: Light Was An Electromagnetic Wave.

Our Modern Conception Of The Universe Is So Foreign To What Even Scientists Generally Believed A Mere Century Ago That It Is A Tribute To The Power Of The Scientific Method And The Creativity And Persistence Of Humans Who Want To Understand It.

The One Experience That I Hope Every Student Has At Some Point In Their Lives Is To Have Some Belief You Profoundly, Deeply Hold, Proved To Be Wrong Because That Is The Most Eye-opening Experience You Can Have, And As A Scientist, To Me, Is The Most Exciting Experience I Can Ever Have.

Organized Religion, Wielding Power Over The Community, Is Antithetical To The Process Of What Modern Democracy Should Define As Liberty. The Sooner We Are Without It, The Better.

Science Is Not Just There For Technology. It's Part Of What Addressing Who You Are In The Universe And Understanding Your Place In The Cosmos. Good Art, Good Literature, Good Music - All Of That Is For That And Science Is A Part Of It.