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He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offense; yet he ignored all the compassion of
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“It’s not for Zeus’s daughter to be A prey to common fears, I never feel Chill fingered panic’s touch. But the horrors Creeping out of Old Night’s womb Since the first beginnings of all things, 8940 With shapes as many as the fiery vapors Billowing from a crater’s fiery mouth, Make even heroes’ hearts turn faint. When”
― Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two
― Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two
“in experimental quantum mechanics we have run right up against what was previously perceived to be a purely philosophical barrier. The experiments are telling us that we can know nothing of reality-in-itself. We have to accept that the properties we ascribe to quantum particles like photons, such as energy, frequency, spin, polarization, position (‘here’ or ‘there’), are properties that have no meaning except in relation to a measuring device that allows them to be projected into our empirical reality of experience. We can no longer assume that the properties we measure necessarily reflect or represent the properties of the particles as they really are.”
― Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
― Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
“What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you”
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“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein”
― Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
― Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
“In the early part of the ninth century, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a mathematician working in Baghdad, wrote a seminal textbook in which he highlighted the usefulness of restoring a quantity being subtracted (like 2, above) by adding it to the other side of an equation. He called this process al-jabr (Arabic for “restoring”), which later morphed into “algebra.” Then, long after his death, he hit the etymological jackpot again. His own name, al-Khwarizmi, lives on today in the word “algorithm.”
― The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
― The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
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