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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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“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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“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
“Pythagoras was a combination of Einstein and the Maharishi.”
― Introducing Newton: A Graphic Guide
― Introducing Newton: A Graphic Guide
“My advice to those who wish to learn the art of scientific prophecy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents, the facts of experience.”
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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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