October 2010
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who...
– Claude Lévi-Strauss
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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
– Claude Bernard
La Leçon de Claude Bernard (The Lesson of Claude Bernard)
(León Lhermitte, 1889)
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
– Miguel de Unamuno
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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can...
– Stephen W. Hawking
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morningstar-deactivated20120201 asked: http://scienceisbeauty.tumblr.com/post/1359552868/sorry-now-i-can-not-think-in-something-that
As I used to say to a ladyfriend of mine, "...my dear, that wouldve provided Archimedes with all the materials he needed to calculate pi."
As I used to say to a ladyfriend of mine, "...my dear, that wouldve provided Archimedes with all the materials he needed to calculate pi."
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It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There...
– Victor Frederick Weisskopf
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Maxwell's Equations & Light →
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Genesis 1:3
Here is one of the first things who made me to fall in love with physics. Starting with the Maxwell’s Equations, making some mathematical tricks, and considerate the empty space, we arrive to the well known and venerable “wave equation”. Now the velocity of propagation of this wave is Vp = 1/(µ0ε0)1/2 and when...
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a...
– Niels Henrik David Bohr
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The species of whale known as the black right whale has four kilos of brains and...
– Jon Lien
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Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.
– Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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