"If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love……" — Sam Kean
"If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants."
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9 Quotes by Sam Kean
Sam Kean has 9 quotes on this site.
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War…
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Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the…
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Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
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So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter…
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Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you…
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Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.
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Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be…
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Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.
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More Constants Quotes
This quote is filed under Constants Quotes,
one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers…
— Richard Dawkins
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Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying,…
— Richard Dawkins
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It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to…
— William Cecil Dampier
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I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do…
— Martin Henderson
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We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States,…
— Khaled Mashal
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There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise…
— Francis Collins
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... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that…
— Stephen Hawking
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The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of…
— John Cheever
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Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and…
— Philippe Starck
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The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants…
— Johannes Kepler
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I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we…
— Stanislaw Lem
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