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May 22, 2017May 16, 2017

Ian Jeffrey

One consequence of the stereo revolution was that the world could be grasped as an infinity of phenomena, as a vast collection of t...

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May 18, 2017May 16, 2017

Vladimir Nabokov

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

 

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May 16, 2017

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison

The history of scientific objectivity is surprisingly short. It first emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and in a matter of deca...

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May 8, 2017May 2, 2017

Louis Pasteur

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

 

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May 4, 2017May 2, 2017

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison

The capacity to freeze detail with negligible labor remained a lauded feature of nineteenth-century photography for scientific illu...

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May 2, 2017

Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright

In the mid-nineteenth century, photography was taken up by scientists and in medical institutions to provide a visual record of exp...

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April 27, 2017April 25, 2017

Ramesh Raskar

Doc Edgerton inspired us with awe and curiosity with this photo of a bullet piercing through an apple, and exposure just a millionth of a second. But now, fifty ye...

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April 25, 2017

Luther Burbank

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable...

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April 20, 2017April 17, 2017

Berenice Abbott

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I’m the one to d...

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April 17, 2017

Jacob Bronowski

The impact of the discovery of X-Rays is obvious, and was immediate.  Suddenly there was given to man an instrument which did witho...

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