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Science, magic and discovery
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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
