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I Would Hope That The Publicity Around The Higgs Boson Would Increase The Public Awareness Of Physics And Cosmology.

Like Music Or Art, Mathematical Equations Can Have A Natural Progression And Logic That Can Evoke Rare Passions In A Scientist. Although The Lay Public Considers Mathematical Equations To Be Rather Opaque, To A Scientist An Equation Is Very Much Like A Movement In A Larger Symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These Are The Qualities That Have Inspired Some Of The Greatest Artists To Create Their Masterpieces, And They Are Precisely The Same Qualities That Motivate Scientists To Search For The Laws Of Nature. Like A Work Of Art Or A Haunting Poem, Equations Have A Beauty And Rhythm All Their Own.

Futurism Today Is Led By Science-fiction Writers, By Sociologists, By Historians. Now, I Have Nothing Against Them. I'm Sure They Do Great Work. But They're Not Scientists. They're Clueless.

We Have Learned More About The Brain In The Last Fifteen Years Than In All Prior Human History, And The Mind, Once Considered Out Of Reach, Is Finally Assuming Center Stage.

The Brain Weighs Only Three Pounds, Yet It Is The Most Complex Object In The Solar System.