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“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 (The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Vol. 2)
― Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Vol. 2)
“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
“The death of God left the angels in a strange position.”
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“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.”
― The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
― The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Abhishek’s 2024 Year in Books
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