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A clash of ideas is not a catastrophe, it is an opportunity. Only its constructive conclusions should be allowed to leave the academic framework.
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University professor.  Research: interaction of lasers with matter, quantum statistical mechanics, photobiology.


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Answered: What is the use of having expectations?

Expectation is indispensable for realizing that something important is happening when it happens. It is like faith. Only people who have faith see God's acts. The others have eyes but do not see.

Answered: Does this knowledge frighten you, or excite you?

Knowledge presupposes that there are knowers who are conscious beings. Therefore, knowledge is both frightening and exciting for, how can there be such a thing as consciousness in a physical world ...

Answered: You knowledge about anything and everything is not ...

If the expected for you is 1. its parts, 2. its abundance, 3. its connections, 4. its sensitivities,5. its forms,6. its substitutes, and 7. its uses. then the unexpected for you is in how far this ...

Answered: Can You Say God Doesn't Exist on Facebook?

The declaration "God does not exist" on Facebook or anywhere else is like saying that ALL THAT IS is not. It's an expression of somebody wishing to show everybody else that he suffers from a ...

Answered: Do you have any unexpected knowledge?

What can I know about it? About it, you can know: 1. its parts, 2. its abundance, 3. its connections, 4. its sensitivities, 5. its forms, 6. its substitutes, and 7. its uses. What else can I know ...

Answered: Why is cellulose a structural, not a storage ...

Cellulose is much more resistant to decomposition (e.g.hydrolysis) than the storage polysaccharides starch and glycogen. That is the reason why starch and and glycogen, but not cellulose, yield sugars ...

Answered: Potho plant

Pothos (epipremnum) Synonyms: Epipremnum aureum, E. aureum (abbreviation),Scindapsus aureus, S. aureus (abbreviation), golden pothos, ivy arum.

Answered: Who said - no matter how often something is said ...

If you repeat a lie a sufficient number of times people will believe it, but it does not make it true.(attributed, probably erroneously,to Joseph Goebbel,Nazi propaganda chief)

Answered: Can't the constituent atoms of water be ...

Of course, in principle you can by substitution replace any atom by an atom or a group of atoms with the same valence, but very often it may be a very useless or even practically impossible ...

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