1- study for chunks of 25 to 30 min after that do something fun or go away
2- reward yourself after finishing your entire day
3- study concepts firstly, then study facts
4- once you learn the concepts, test yourself and learn actively
5- highlight the important terms
6- our brain is good at recognizing, but it’s not good at recollecting, so you can practice this by testing yourself and learn actively
7- flush out your notes to solidify the concepts in your mind if you’re feeling fuzzy with something, you can ask your friend who takes a good notes or ask your professor in office hours
8- summarize what you have learned by teaching it :
1- it’s useful for recalling the information
2- to ensure that you understand the subject completely
9- to be good at memorizing is to use mnemonics :
1- acronyms : ROYGBIV (red orange yellow green blue indigo violet)
2- coined sayings : as you’re singing a poet about something, you need to memorize
3- image association : to create a story in your head with what you have studied
This guy really took the “teach it to someone else” concept and thought we didn’t notice him doing it.
If we could be born in another time or place. If we could grow up in a different family and environment. If we could grow up with a different body (gender, skin colour etc..) What would our lives be like now? And how could we manage it?
There’s also a series that made me think about this. Especially about refugees, poor, sick people…
“America needs to understand Islam because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white, but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.”
Malcolm X
I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Those of you who are Christian probably believe in the same God, because I think you believe in the God Who created the universe. That’s the One we believe in, the One Who created universe – the only difference being you call Him God and we call Him Allah. The Jews call Him Jehovah. If you could understand Hebrew, you would probably call Him Jehovah too. If you could understand Arabic, you would probably call Him Allah.
Malcolm X
Why did Malcolm X find Islam a religion of justice and equality?
“All mankind is from Adam and Eve. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.
Malcolm X
[…] 1,430 years ago, Prophet Muhammad delivered the historic Last Sermon (khutabat al-wida) on the parched terrain of Mount of Mercy (Jabal ar-Rahmah) in the Uranah valley of Mount Arafat, 20 kilometres east of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. [https://archive.sabrangindia.in]
We continue and search thoughts expressed by the greatest scientists in our history. Nothing about theologians.
OK! Is there a “Creator” or a “Great Intelligence”?
An atheist says: “We can’t proof it by science, and we can’t see anything. Then God doesn’t exist.” Agnostics, on the other hand, claim that the existence of any deity is unknown or unknowable.
Adventure with the science guys
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
Michio Kaku (1947 – present)
Dr. Francis Collins (1950 – present)
Bill Nye (1955 – present)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson (1958 – present)
Galileo Galilei – “That great book”
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei in “The Assayer” (1623), as translated by Thomas Salusbury (1661), p. 178, as quoted in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (2003) by Edwin Arthur Burtt, p. 75
Charles Darwin – “I have never been an atheist”
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) in his last years, as he wrote in a letter (1879) to John Fordyce:
[My] judgment often fluctuates…. Whether a man deserves to be called a theist depends on the definition of the term … In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. — I think that generally (and more and more so as I grow older), but not always, — that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.
It’s interesting because a scientist see Nature and Universe by a completely different way rather than a usual man. A great scientist spend his lifetime looking for the deepest laws and rules in our cosmos.
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality and intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order. […] This firm belief, a belief bound up with a deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God. In common parlance this may be described as “pantheistic” (Spinoza).
A.Einstein, in answers he gave to the Japanese magazine “Kaizō” in 1923.
Albert Einstein had a special and personal concept of God, influenced also by Spinoza (1632-1677, philosopher).
Dr. Francis Collins – “A different set of questions”
Some scientists see religion as a threat to the scientific method that should be resisted. But faith “is really asking a different set of questions.”
— says Collins
Dr. Francis Collins has served as the director of the National Institutes of Health since August 2009. He is the former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, where he led the successful effort to complete the Human Genome Project—which mapped and sequenced all the human DNA and determined aspects of its function. The project built the foundation upon which subsequent genetic research is being performed. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. In 2007 Collins received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honour, and in 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Collins has also published several books about the intersection of science and faith, including the New York Times bestseller “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.”
As final thoughts, it’s not a matter of only scientific research. Because our ability and position to answers some ambitious questions are faraway our prediction. I can’t imagine when we could be able to find out and solve such mysteries. One thousand years? Two thousands? One Hundred thousands?
Excluding our extinction by ourselves, of course…
We can give one conclusion. There is a higher order, a predictable design. There are signs that every phenomenon is following a specific, designed rule that connects everything. We can also see that this is the result of an intelligence somehow.
I’d like to leave you with an interesting piece from an interview with Martin Rees, a famous cosmologist. In this interview, he shares his thoughts about the Nature Laws.
This post will be updated with new sources and researches!
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