At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?
And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.
The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
