Science and Technology
- 1-Methylcyclopropene, a synthetic plant hormone
- Manual call point, a common device allowing building occupants to alert others of fire
- Master control point, term used in measuring
- Mechanical counter pressure, a spacesuit technology in use in space activity suits
- Micro-channel plate, an electron amplification device used in physics
- Mixed complementarity problem, a formulation in mathematical programming
- Mode Control Panel, an instrument panel in some aircraft cockpits that contains the autopilot controls
- Motor Control Panel, a term used in Engineering for the plant
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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
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