Science and Technology
- Parrot Compiler Toolkit, an implementation of an Abstract syntax tree representation and compiler for Parrot virtual machine
- Patient care technician
- Percent, abbreviation
- Perceptual control theory, a psychological theory of purposeful behavior
- Placebo-controlled Trial (Placebo-controlled study)
- Polychlorinated terphenyl, an industrial chemical and environmental contaminant.
- Polycyclohexylenedimethylene terephthalate, a thermoplastic polyester
- Porphyria cutanea tarda, a form of porphyria
- Postcoital test, a test for infertility
- Post-coital tristesse
- Post cycle therapy, a method of stabilizing hormonal functions
- Private Communications Technology, an obsolete Internet security protocol
- Procalcitonin
- Processor-Controlled Test, a test and debug solution for assembled boards (PCBAs)
- Program control table, used by CICS
- Programmable Communicating Thermostat
- Proton Computed Tomography, tomographic imaging with protons
- Proximal convoluted tubule, part of the nephron of the kidney
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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)
“Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There’s revenge for this humanity. What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)