User:D Hill

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Wikipedian as of February 18, 2006, with 259 edits as of June 25 2006.

Goals

My goals as an editor of wikipedia are

To increase the amount of available knowledge

• Knowledge is an important thing to people, and adding to it is a great task to accomplish.
• Also it may help a person who needs certain information.
• Wikipedia is a free source of knowledge and deserves to be as good a possible; I hope to make it better.

To contribute to the comunity

• Wikipedia is a community effort, that needs everyones collaboration to succeed.
• Also, it is more than just text; it is the effort of people from every part of the world.
• Many people believe that Wikipedia is "no good", and I'll try to change their minds by writing higher quality articles.

and to learn in the process

• As I progress and grow I will aquire more knowledge naturally.
• And Perhapse, I will learn more about myself along the way.

Featured Article

Golding Bird (9 December 1814 – 27 October 1854) was a medical doctor who researched the chemistry of urine and kidney stones. From 1836, he lectured at Guy's Hospital and published Elements of Natural Philosophy, a textbook on science for medical students. Bird was innovative in the medical use of electricity, designing his own equipment and bringing medical electrotherapy into the mainstream. He invented a variant of the Daniell cell in 1837, making key discoveries in electrometallurgy. Bird also designed a flexible stethoscope, and in 1840 published the first description of one. In 1842, he was the first to describe oxaluria, a condition which leads to the formation of a particular kind of stone, and published a comprehensive paper on urinary deposits in 1844. A devout Christian, Bird believed that Bible study and prayer were just as important to medical students as their studies. He founded the Christian Medical Association, although it did not become active until after his death. (Full article...)

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Periodically Featured Article: Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19,1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prodigy, who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by expanding the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote powerfully in defense of the scientific method.

He was a mathematician of the first order. Pascal helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen and corresponded with Pierre de Fermat from 1654 on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he left mathematics and physics and devoted himself to reflection and writing about philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées. However, he had suffered from ill-health throughout his life and his new interests were ended by his early death two months after his 39th birthday.

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Most Influential person of the 1900s.

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" — Albert Einstein
• "Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes" — George Santayana
• "There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance" — Plato
• "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance" — Socrates
• "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free" — Aristotle
• "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world" — Archimedes
• "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases" — George Orwell
• "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things" — Isaac Newton
• "An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind" — Gandhi

Art gallery

The Art gallery is a project of mine to preserve and make accessable selected art works. The art gallery can be accessed here.

Vandalism

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External Links

• Gymnosperm Database
• Internation Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
• International Council for Science
• Human Genome Project
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
• European Space Agency
• The World Factbook
• Merck Manual
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• English-German bilingual dictionary, from Tu-chemnitz