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“If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.”
― Paul A.M. Dirac

tags: beauty, equations, mathematics, physics, science

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“Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: humor, science, time

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“Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville , Democracy in America

tags: 1840, democracy, meditation, science

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“Religion is a distraction from true education.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: antitheism, atheism, science

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“Let us begin with the fine-structure constant. ... The fine-structure constant is really the ratio of two natural units or atoms of action. ... We obtain action when we multiply energy by time. ... We are challenged to find a unified theory of electric particles and radiation in which the electrostatic type of action and the quantum type of action are traced to their source.”
― Arthur Stanley Eddington, New Pathways in Science

tags: fine-structure-constant, physics, quantum-theory, science

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