Hotspot - Science and Medicine

Science and Medicine

  • Hotspot (geology), an area of unusually high volcanic activity
  • Hot spot effect in subatomic physics, regions of high energy density or temperature in hadronic or nuclear matter
  • Biodiversity hotspot, a region of significant biodiversity
  • Recombination hotspot, a DNA position where genetic recombination occurs with above-average frequency
  • Hot spot (veterinary medicine), a raw animal lesion

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Famous quotes containing the words science and, science and/or medicine:

    We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms.... Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)

    The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    We gave ‘em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave ‘em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to poison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don’t you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.
    Karl Brown (1897–1990)