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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
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[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
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But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
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People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
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Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della
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Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.
