October 2010
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“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who...”
– Claude Lévi-Strauss
Oct 31st
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Oct 30th
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Oct 29th
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Oct 29th
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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)
Oct 28th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 24th
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“The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.”
– Miguel de Unamuno
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can...”
– Stephen W. Hawking
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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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."
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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“It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There...”
– Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 14th
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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...
Oct 14th
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Oct 12th
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“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a...”
– Niels Henrik David Bohr
Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 9th
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Oct 9th
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“The species of whale known as the black right whale has four kilos of brains and...”
– Jon Lien
Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.”
– Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 6th
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Oct 5th
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