Rodrigo Camargo

“objects are only a set of statistical likelihoods – a cloud of qualities-in-potential, yet to be distilled into any specific form.  We can never simply find out what they are, because their attributes are unfixed until we observe them.  They’re nothing without us. ”
― Richard Bensam, Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen

“The current leading candidates for dark matter are particles predicted to exist from supersymmetric theories, extensions of current particle physics that include a new symmetry of Nature. The reader may recognize the “super” in supersymmetry from superstring theory, a candidate theory for unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics. As of the winter of 2014, no evidence for supersymmetry had been found, despite decades of intense search and the enthusiastic support of many physicists. At this point, it is unclear and somewhat doubtful that supersymmetry is realized in Nature.”
― Marcelo Gleiser, The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

“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”
― Jim Baggott, 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.”
― Steven H. Strogatz, The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity