“The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“Every cup that passes through a single person and eventually rejoins the world’s water supply holds enough molecules to mix 1,500 of them into every other cup of water in the world. No way around it: some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc.
How about air? Also vital. A single breathful draws in more air molecules than there are breathfuls of air in Earth’s entire atmosphere. That means some of the air you just breathed passed through the lungs of Napoleon, Beethoven, Lincoln, and Billy the Kid.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
How about air? Also vital. A single breathful draws in more air molecules than there are breathfuls of air in Earth’s entire atmosphere. That means some of the air you just breathed passed through the lungs of Napoleon, Beethoven, Lincoln, and Billy the Kid.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“In the beginning, there was physics.”
― Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
― Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
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