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“And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the cate-gory of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“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
“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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“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
“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.”
― The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
― The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
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