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“The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made
or the excitement they are generating.”
― A Brief History of Time
or the excitement they are generating.”
― A Brief History of Time
“We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
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“In the early universe—when the universe was small enough to be governed by both general relativity and quantum theory—there were effectively four dimensions of space and none of time. That means that when we speak of the “beginning” of the universe, we are skirting the subtle issue that as we look backward toward the very early universe, time as we know it does not exist! We must accept that our usual ideas of space and time do not apply to the very early universe. That is beyond our experience, but not beyond our imagination, or our mathematics.”
― The Grand Design
― The Grand Design
Jacqui’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jacqui’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
93 books
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45 friends
230 books
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147 friends
1,216 books
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94 friends
458 books
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120 friends
993 books
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33 friends
238 books
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106 friends
425 books
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166 friends
158 books
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50 friends
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