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Kevin Kelly
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writer who co-founded Wired magazine in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His books include the best-seller, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (2016).
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Science Quotes by Kevin Kelly (1 quote)
Science will continue to surprise us with what it discovers and creates; then it will astound us by devising new methods to surprise us. At the core of science’s self-modification is technology. New tools enable new structures of knowledge and new ways of discovery. The achievement of science is to know new things; the evolution of science is to know them in new ways. What evolves is less the body of what we know and more the nature of our knowing.
— Kevin Kelly
'Speculations on the Future of Science'. In Clifford A. Pickover, Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them (2008), 172.
See also:
- The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, by Kevin Kelly. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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