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And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you…
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Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I…
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Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
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It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the…
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Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
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We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness,…
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There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is…
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No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face…
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The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
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Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical…
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Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
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Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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Eureka is Greek for ‘this bath is too hot’.
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And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing…
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Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny...
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I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.
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In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’
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Once you put bacon in a salad, it's no longer a salad. It just becomes a game of 'find the bacon in…
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People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then…
— Roger Penrose
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Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
— Archimedes
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Archimedes said Eureka, Cos in English he weren't too aversed in, when he discovered that the volume of a body in the…
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