In Science
- Biology
- Primitive node is the organizer tissue for gastrulation in vertebrates.
- Node (botany), the place on a plant stem where a leaf is attached
- In Cladistics, a shared ancestor (also see Clade)
- Space
- Orbital node, the points where an orbit crosses a plane of reference
- Lunar node, where the orbits of the sun and moon intersect
- Longitude of the node, how orbital nodes are parameterised
- Node 4, a proposed module of the International Space Station
- Node Module, a planned module of the International Space Station
- Orbital node, the points where an orbit crosses a plane of reference
- Physics
- Node (physics), a point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude
- Linguistics
- Node (linguistics), a branch point in the Tree model, or Node Theory, of language evolution
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“We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)