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• I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in…
• Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
• The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough…
• The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number…
• Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.
• He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except…
• Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's…
• The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.
• The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ...
• During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl…
• Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They…
• Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the…

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