Professor: Dr. Joseph M.
Dirnberger
Office: 338
Science Building
e-mail:jdirnber@kennesaw.edu
Syllabus
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Annoucements: No lecture (or lab) on Wednesday,
14 November
"The most wonderful mystery of
life may well be the means by which it created so much diversity from
so little physical matter. The biosphere, all organisms combined,
makes up only about one part in ten billion of the earth’s mass.
It is sparsely distributed through a kilometer of soil, water, and air…
Yet life has divided into millions of species, the fundamental units,
each playing a unique role in relationship to the whole."
- from E.O.Wilson’s The
Diversity of Life (1992)
"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."
- Richard Dawkins (British biologist) in The Blind Watchmaker (1986)
"The most powerful force in the universe is compound
interest"
-Albert Einstein
"It
is a miracle that
curiosity survives formal education."
-Albert
Einstein