Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Take an objective universe populated with many diverse species. Each is going to tackle their world in their own unique way, guided by the biology of their minds and bodies. The structure of their science could be - should be - fundamentally different from our own, even it predicts the same phenomena. One race can "see" cosmic radiation and never dicked around with some our history's sillier misconceptions about the universe. Another has a brain that thinks in quantum terms. Still another has a biologically different (but sound, or at least as sound as ours) concept of mathematics.

"Science is the artifice we use to describe nature, and that artifice is as unique and beautiful a product of our race as Bach or the Sistine chapel."

-- tdj, 2006-11-04