Recursion
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Life with a cheat code isn’t life. Our existence isn’t something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That’s what it is to be human—the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.
“There are other reasons we use math in physics. Besides keeping us honest, math is also the most economical and unambiguous terminology that we know of. Language is malleable; it depends on context and interpretation. But math doesn’t care about culture or history. If a thousand people read a book, they read a thousand different books. But if a thousand people read an equation, they read the same equation.”
― Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
― Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
“I quite like the idea that we live in a computer simulation. It gives me hope that things will be better on the next level.”
― Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
― Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
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“If you don’t fight for what you want, then don’t cry for what you lost.
Likewise,
Nothing depends on luck, everything depends on work,
Because Even Luck has to work.”
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Likewise,
Nothing depends on luck, everything depends on work,
Because Even Luck has to work.”
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“For the most part, physicists and mathematicians have settled on a fine division of labour in which the former complain about the finickiness of the latter, and the latter complain about the sloppiness of the former.”
― Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
― Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
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