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“God abhors a naked singularity.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.
The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"
"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"
"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
“Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.”
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”
― Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
― Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
“...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.”
― The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
― The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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