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“If Grumpy Cat could bring herself to actually support something, it should be a no-brainer for mere humans.”
― Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back
― Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back
“It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth.”
― Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
― Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
“Bohr, for his part, supple pragmatist and democrat that he was, never an absolutist, heard once too often about Einstein’s personal insight into the gambling habits of the Deity. He scolded his distinguished colleague finally in Einstein’s own terms. God does not throw dice? “Nor is it our business to prescribe to God how He should run the world.”502”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
“But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Q. What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? —Ellen McManis Let’s set aside the question of how we got the baseball moving that fast. We’ll suppose it’s a normal pitch, except in the instant the pitcher releases the ball, it magically accelerates to 0.9c. From that point onward, everything proceeds according to normal physics. A. The answer turns out to be “a lot of things,” and they all happen very quickly, and it doesn’t end well for the batter (or the pitcher). I”
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Glen ’s 2024 Year in Books
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