Having been disillusioned with intellectual sciences, he practiced asceticism for a number of years in seclusion and finally found his answers in the Sufi tradition.
Chiang created this dilemma in his short story, and it augments this very intellectual, science-heavy movie, adding a very sensitive and humane undercurrent.
The film itself is a return to highly-intellectual science fiction in the vein of Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, and Aldous Huxley.
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, venture capital firms, scientific consulting firms, medical and scientific journals, law firms dealing in intellectual property, science-focused nonprofit organizations and foundations, government agencies, and K 12 schools are among the "alternative" career options the speakers mentioned.
It is the religious and cultural fundamentalism that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, intolerant, provincial, insular, tetchy, self-righteous, faith-based — you get the idea.
"They are anti-intellectual, anti-science and provide the wrong message to young people …" But who decided that "real teaching and learning" was the case, and not "anti-intellectualism"?
In recent months, anti-intellectual, anti-science legislation has been introduced in Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire and Oklahoma.
But the anti-intellectual, anti-science bias goes much further and deeper.
If the Mitt-mobile does roll into Washington it'll be towing behind it the whole anti-intellectual, anti-science freakshow".
Science historian Mario Biagioli, the co-editor of the anthology Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science, says author attribution has always been a tricky issue.
If you enjoy the intellectual challenges that science offers and cannot imagine doing anything else, then you should stick with science and find ways to improve your situation.
