Heredity is a series of imperfect chemical processes that changes over time.

Bang the rocks together.

If a mathematical equation counts as a sentence, I’d nominate the SM Lagrangian.

Question everything! (Yes, even this)

Risa’s sentence is good, although I think it’s cheating to use “and.” Thinking more big-picturey (which is another kind of cop-out), I’d really like to go with

The world is not magic

but ultimately I’d probably choose

It works, Bitches!

Maybe the best thing to “send forward” would be one of the questions that got us (in the larger sense of modern science) started, like
“Why do the apples fall straight down?” or
“If I am moving at the speed of light and turn on a lamp, what do I see?” or
“If I am in a eleavtor and the rope breaks, why don’t I feel my weight?”

(Trouble is, there is a lot of cultural baggage associated with these sentences – words like “lamp” or “elevator” or the concept that light has a finite speed. How one would go about sending a message forward is quite interesting in its own right.)

If we are limited to a simple declarative sentence, I would have to opt for “Never stop asking questions” and hope they figure out the rest.

“Reality or Locality: at least one is false.”

What passes for common sense is always revisable

open source your code.

‘It was briefly adventuorus, then wondorous, then glamorous, and fun, then it was economized, then terrorized, then downsized and it was done.’

Nothing to do with physics or hedge funds, just with being an airline pilot.

David Brin: “Criticism is the only known antidote to error.”

I have two:

For human nature: “Everything about people comes down to three things: myth, power, and value.”

For physics: The only thing that never changes is the speed of light in a vacuum – everything else is relative!

If you want to understand anything of fundamental importance about anything at all, use mathematics.

Model it as a population.

This is all a lot simpler and a lot more complicated than you could possibly imagine.

“the possibility that the entire universe arose as a quantum fluctuation”

Lisa, not absolutely sure who to actually credit for being the first to have ever use those eleven words in that sequence. No doubt someone did.
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This is a fun game! A couple of my favorites from luminaries:

The question of whether there are limitations in principle of what problems man can make machines solve for him as compared to his own ability to solve problems, really is a technical question in recursive function theory. (John McCarthy)

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure. (Edsger Dijkstra, EWD1284)

If I had to come up with one myself, it might be something like “Recursion is the basis of computation, and abstraction is the basis of describing it.”

Also, many of Alan Perlis’s Epigrams on Programming are good.

(I’ve been reading CV for a while; it’s good stuff! I haven’t had opportunity to post until now, though.)

All is expiring energy except for the truth which never expires and so is pure – either pure energy or pure nothingness.

“Reality or Locality: at least one is false.”
Not false but relative.

Space and time are inherently linked.

The most effective way to ensure progress is to first ensure freedom of speech.

Ideas are powerful engines.

Humans are fallible.

Onions and matryoshka.

String’s not the thing.

Art is whatever they pay for.

Curiosity is all.

all advice sums up to:
Do as i say, not as i do.
OR
Do as i do, not as i say.

determining the correct application per RWE is the rub!

Most of these are closer to rules to live by than “summations of your field,” it seems. Within every blog reader lives an advice columnist yearning to be free.

No need to write something original here, we can just quote David Hilbert: “Physics is much too hard for physicists“

Things are numbers and numbers are things, Bitches!

Computer science. Don’t Repeat Yourself

Damn, I’m an advice columnist!

“The 3 Laws of Thermodynamics: You can’t win, you can’t break even, and you gotta play.” –free-floating meme

“If you seek mind, you find only matter; if you seek matter, you find only mind.” –zen meme

Or:
“If you got it nailed down, what’s all that around it?” –Brother Dave Gardner

Or:
“Reality is a hypothetical construct.” –Martin Richard

And meanwhile:
“Wine is a chemical symphony.” –Maynard Amerine

And thus it follows:

“Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly–and lo! the Bird is on the Wing.”

Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.”
–Omar Khayyam

This one is from Rutherford: “In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”

“Physicians [also scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and even philosophers] are defined by the tools at their disposal.”

My father always told me that “the universe and all that it contains can be described by mathematical ratios.”
I said that “moderation in the extremes of excess is intelligent.”
Now i say: “Good Luck, and thanks for all the Physh.”

You have evolved like everything other living thing, and continue to do so without a master plan.

There is no one sentence guide to reality.

“Rocks are made of elements.”

Feynman on physics probably can’t be improved.

Acting: Before you do anything on stage, take a breath. (Tyron Guthrie)

Biology: All life has a common ancestor. (Darwin)

Chemistry: See Feynman on Physics

Geology: This place is **old** and the rocks move!

Meterorology: The winds and the weather are powered by differential heating and steered by the Earth’s rotation.

Blog Commenting: stop sooner rather than later.

…..Except for undecidable questions.

How about: Quantum (non-classical) states are really really useful, especially the entangled ones!

If physics is governed by one law, it must be the Extremum Principle.

Particles are also waves.

or

Electrons in solids *usually* behave as if they don’t see each other or the atomic lattice.

On science in general:

“No– look again.”

Behaviour is based in the brain.

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My field is comp. sci. and I would say: “You can build anything out of nand gates.” (If needed one could replace “nand gates” with their definition.)

Also, as an erstwhile philosopher of language, I’d say: “The meaning of a word is public and depends on the meanings of other words.” If the “and” is considered cheating, then use the part after “and.”

my pearl of wisdom to future generations is this:
“never read the threads”

Nothing is free.

People evolved from apes.

“The brain is a non-linear transmission line and may be compared to a copper wire which also has input and output but insufficient complexity to have opinions of its own.”

It’s all been said before.

For much of sociology, anthro, political science and even econ:

In the beginning was the deed.

I am the Universe, and so are you.

One of my degrees is in Biblical Studies. I’d say this about the Bible:

It is mostly incoherent plagiarism, assembled by people with agendas, and never intended to be relevant 20 centuries later.

Everything is pointless.

All is One and One is all; and the better we understand particular things, the better we understand God.

On the Mind and Consciousness: Your hard wired self includes the all upgraded model to include 4 miles of synaptic cables all inter connected into a self contained evolutional genius.

Math:
There are no absolute truths.
or…
There is an exception to every rule.

Cosmology:
The Universe is the ultimate free lunch.
or…
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Epistomology:
You may not be coming from where I’m coming from, but I know relativism isn’t true for me.
– Alan Garfinkle

Computer Science:
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
– Rich Kulawiec
or…
“It’s pretty clear that the facts show that Windows provides a lower total cost of ownership than Linux, the number of security vulnerabilities is lower on Windows, and Windows’ responsiveness on security is better than Linux.”
– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, November 2004