February 2010
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“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real...”
– Richard Feynman
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“I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations,...”
– Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
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“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to...”
– Carl Sagan
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“The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.”
– Julius Robert Oppenheimer
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WatchThis is an audio-reactive algorithmic visual art piece that uses the concept of charged particles and flocking to simulate a organism that is alive and composed of micro-organisms.
Source&Credit: Reza Ali
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“Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer...”
– Eugene Wigner
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“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation;...”
– Aristotle
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“You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing...”
– Werner Heisenberg
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A projection of the Gosset 4_21 (or E_8) polytope, an 8-dimensional “polygon” with 240 vertices.
(Source: Wikipedia, graphic by users Jgmoxness and Tomruen)
Submitted by Erika Nilsson
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“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would...”
– Marie Curie
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“Science is not formal logic–it needs the free play of the mind in as great a...”
– Max Born
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