Cognition - starting with astonishment

Who is doing his business in the sense of a machine, will get a machine-heart. (Konfuzius)
Those who cannot get excited about anything, I'll not teach. (Konfuzius)
The wonderfulness of the world is always adequate to the wonderfulness of the spirit, who looks at it. (Heinrich Heine)
The Intellect has a keen eye for methods and tools, but it is blind against aims and values. (Albert Einstein)
A business which earns nothing but money, is a bad business. (Henry Ford I.)
Modesty ought to be the virtue of those, who lack the others. (Lichtenberg)
The cleverness of a person can be calculated by the accuracy, wherewith he considers what happens in future or in the end. (Lichtenberg)
Two things are infinite: the universe and the human ignorance. But regarding the universe I don't feel completely certain yet. (Albert Einstein)
 

What is the point with the new Science Review Letters? Too many different topics? you'll see, it has its points. Isn't it most astonishing how many knowledge areas you can find? And what if they are all interesting?

„All knowledge begins with being astonished, and only who start with astonishment, with wondrousness, is on the way to right knowldge". (Rudolf Steiner)

„Who is doing his business in the sense of a machine, will get a machine-heart". (Konfuzius)

„Those who cannot get excited about anything, I'll not teach." (Konfuzius)

If you sometimes get enthusiastic about the smallest things, you may find here interesting book reviews, article reviews backed up by research, scientific texts and latest findings. The point is "to think back to lifely essence of nature facts", astonishment, cognition, cognitive faculty on the one hand, and conscience on the other hand. It is a matter of the moral sense of interest, of medicinal aspects, last but not least a matter of turning out the environmental impact and health hazards of genetically modified plants and animals - a fact that is being always played down by manny scientists and which is not without its irony. For introduction here a selection of some good word from famous scientists, poets and thinkers:

The whole view of the world, which came into being little by little, shows only, that for the external view of nature, regarding thinking about the external nature, the possibility has vanished, to think back to lifely essence of nature facts. (Rudolf Steiner)

The wonderfulness of the world is always adequate to the wonderfulness of the spirit, who looks at it. (Heinrich Heine)

Each fixed star emerged from a planet. (Rudolf Steiner)

Being materialist, means to be illogical at the same time. (Rudolf Steiner)

The Intellect has a keen eye for methods and tools, but it is blind against aims and values. (Albert Einstein)

A business which earns nothing but money, is a bad business. (Henry Ford I.)

Modesty ought to be the virtue of those, who lack the others. (Lichtenberg)

The cleverness of a person can be calculated by the accuracy, wherewith he considers what happens in future or in the end. (Lichtenberg)

It is much more important, to envisage the moral significance of interest than searching for thousands of nice and may be only canting, fussy moral principles. (Rudolf Steiner)

Two things are infinite: the universe and the human ignorance. But regarding the universe I don't feel completely certain yet. (Albert Einstein)