Science and Technology
- Absolute value of a number, its value without regard to sign; its magnitude.
absis the associated function in many programming languages. - Absolutive case in interlinear glossing
- Absorbance in regard to spectroscopy
- Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, a polymer or plastic
- Amniotic band syndrome
- Anti-lock braking system, an electronic automotive safety system for the vehicle braking system
- Arch Build System, a component of the package management system for the Arch Linux distribution
- Automatic Block Signal, a railroad signal system in the United States
- Rectus abdominis muscle, paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the human abdomen
- Abdominals, muscles of the human abdominal wall
- AirPort Base Station, part of Apple Computers' AirPort WLAN solution
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“If you have science and art,
You also have religion;
But if you don’t have them,
You better have religion.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
—Jacques Attali (b. 1943)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)