"The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups."

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Steven Weinberg

#Beauty Quotes #Art Quotes #Groups Quotes

“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.”
“Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?”
“Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.”
“You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.”
“Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually ***** its progress.”
“Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.”

Source : Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.”
“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”

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