Science and Medicine
- Selective dissemination of information, a search task in information retrieval
- Silt density index, a measure for the fouling capacity of water in reverse osmosis systems
- Small diameter implant, a type of dental implant
- Smoke-developed index, a measure of the concentration of smoke a material emits as it burns
- Standard deviation index, generally used to show how far a value is from the target value, often used in external quality assurance
- Sulfadimidine, an antibiotic
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“Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“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)
“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)