"There is adventure in finding compelling stories and exploring complex issues in challenging environments, but there is also a responsibility to tell those stories accurately and objectively." ~ K. Lee

"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." ~ Terry Pratchett: Welcome to the 136th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each scientific

"I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries." ~ Brian Andreas Welcome to the 135th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the

"Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat." ~ John Green Welcome to the 134th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post

"To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint." ~ Leon Cooper Welcome to the 133th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each scientific field

"nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout." ~ Eric Chaisson Welcome to the 132nd Daily

"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient." ~ William James Welcome to the 131st Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each

"Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth." ~ Felix Alba-Juez Welcome to the 130th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day,

"Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science." ~ James Bridie Welcome to the 129th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each scientific field that

"It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!" ~ Felix Alba-Juez Welcome to the 128th Daily Field

Science quote of the day:"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them" ~ William Lawrence Bragg Welcome to the 127th Daily Field Note!

Science quote of the day:"We are the result of the universe attempting to understand itself" ~ Ronald Mallett Welcome to the 126th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering

Science quote of the day:"The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense." ~ Kedar Joshi Welcome to the 125th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each

Science quote of the day:"By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it." ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky Welcome to the 124th Daily Field Note! Here

Science quote of the day:"All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either." ~ G.K. Chesterton Welcome to the 123th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of

Science quote of the day:"A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same" ~ Alchemist Welcome to the 122th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering

"Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers." ~ Ozzie Zehner Welcome to the 121th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each scientific field that is included by

Science quote of the day:"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which

Science quote of the day:"NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil." ~ Will Chabot Welcome to the 119th Daily Field Note! Here

Science quote of the day:"There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature." ~ H. Rider Haggard Welcome to the 118th Daily Field Note! Here you find