I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key… — John H. Van Vleck Copy Share Image
We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
The idea of suggesting that Hannibal Lecter - in the book, he has a sixth finger and red eyes, and so there… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“That’s impossible [...] You need infinite energy for light travel. Haven’t you heard of the theory of relativity?” She thought she had… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“When an important change takes place in science, in which a new theory takes the stagw, the incoming theory is generally an… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Among the objections to the reality of objects of sense, there is one which is derived from the apparent difference between matter… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
“After receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, Max Planck went on tour across Germany. Wherever he was invited, he delivered… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
“The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims,… — Michael Talbot Copy Share Image
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It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“And then swooping back in again, even faster, one long incredible fall through the human-shape of me and this time down past… — Lisa Bunker Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mess of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold… — Confucius Copy Share Image
What we call the 'world' and the 'universe' is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharing the same space. The… — David Icke Copy Share Image
The universe is a multi-dimension al creative process, constantly forming new facets of possibility for you and all living things. Expanding our… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
![“That’s impossible [...] You need infinite energy for light travel. Haven’t you heard of the theory of relativity?” She thought she had him stumped with that one, but he just laughed again. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” quote by Shannon Messenger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a4d/shannon-messenger-6457_energy_that-s-impossible-you-need-infinite-ener_1524900.jpg)
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