“If there is one thing we try to teach our students when they first arrive at the University of Manchester, ready to learn to be physicists, it is that everyone gets confused and stuck. Very few people understand difficult concepts the first time they encounter them, and the way to a deeper understanding is to move forward with small steps. In the words of Douglas Adams: 'Don’t panic!”
― Why Does E=mc²?
― Why Does E=mc²?
“Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“...war was not glory but dirt and misery.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.”
― Gone With the Wind
― Gone With the Wind
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