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“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.”
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“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
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“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
― The Collected Works
― The Collected Works
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck.”
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This is known as "bad luck.”
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“The reason Dick's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual theoretical physics was done since the time of Newton was to begin by writing down some equations and then to work hard calculating solutions of the equations. This was the way Hans and Oppy and Julian Schwinger did physics. Dick just wrote down the solutions out of his head without ever writing down the equations. He had a physical picture of the way things happen, and the picture gave him the solutions directly with a minimum of calculation. It was no wonder that people who had spent their lives solving equations were baffled by him. Their minds were analytical; his was pictorial.”
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William’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at William’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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24 friends
97 books
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585 books
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80 books
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