Science
- Paired-end tags, a DNA technique for obtaining short paired sequences for high-throughput sequencing
- Photoinduced electron transfer, a process of electron transfer under action of light
- Pólya enumeration theorem, a mathematical theorem in enumerative combinatorics
- Polyethylene terephthalate, a common plastic material in the polyester family
- Potential evapotranspiration, a measure of the atmospheric demand for water vapour from evaporation and transpiration
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.... Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labour bore fruit.”
—George Mikes (b. 1912)
“What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing their importance by making this main goal more magnificent. For one should reform forward, not backward: social illnesses, revolutions, are evolutions inhibited by a conserving stupidity.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)