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The physicist Enrico Fermi was known for his ability to estimate things quickly and produce order-of-magnitude guesses with only minimal calculation. Hence, a problem where the goal is to simply obtain the nearest power-of-10 estimate is
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“Owen. He coined the term Dinosauria in 1841. It means 'terrible lizard' and was a curiously inapt name.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”
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God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”
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“But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard about our own selves, would only make us unhappy”
― The White Castle
― The White Castle
“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only "pseudo problems," because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless.”
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“But I believe that there is no philosophical highroad in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.”
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Ahmed’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ahmed’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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