Science, magic and discovery. A B C D Assumption

Science, magic and discovery

A

B

C

D

Assumption

SCIENCEKnowledge and understanding

MAGIC

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C Clarke’s 3rd ‘Law’

SCIENCEKnowledge and understanding

MAGIC

“Imagineers”

SCIENCEKnowledge and understanding

MAGIC

“a solution looking

for a problem.”

Telephone

ComputerTelevision

Jet planes

Internet

Car

Laser

e-money

Vaccines

Spacetravel

GPSSteamships

Trains

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C Clarke’s 3rd ‘Law’

Time travel

French inventor and magician called “the father of modern conjuring.”

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin1805-1871

Time

“Remained all his life in love with the impossible.”

Kenneth Clark

Isambard Kingdom Brunel1806-1859

“A one man industrial revolution”

Dan Cruickshank

BIG ideas

BIG questions

What? Why? How?

BIG questions

A E I O U

Studied x-rays in 1895

Wilhelm C. Roentgen1845-1923

The amazing

Anti-gravity tin

“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach,

while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”

Sir Isaac Newton1643-1727

F = Gm1m2

r2

“Standing on the shoulders of giants”

Testing Product

Failure“I have not failed.

I've just found 10,000ways that won't work.”

Thomas A. Edison  

“IMPOSSIBLE!”

ss Great Britain 1843

Propeller

Steam engine

Iron hull

Taking risks