Science
- ecological footprint, the measure of the demand the population has on the environment
- ejection fraction, in cardiovascular physiology
- electric field, in physics
- elongation factors, proteins that are important in protein synthesis
- enhanced Fujita scale (EF scale), an improved version of the Fujita scale used to rate tornadoes; rates the strength of tornadoes in the US based on the observed damages
- exafarad, an SI unit of electric capacitance
- Fermi energy (EF), a concept in quantum mechanics
- ice cap climate, which is abbreviated to EF in the Köppen climate classification
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“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat—a boat which, to revert to Neurath’s figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking, love has found. Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short to the spirits everything speaks.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“But don’t despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)