“There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe that there ever was such a time. … On the other hand, I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. … Do not keep saying to yourself, if you [...]
Read On No CommentsThere are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing —that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing [...]
I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
Erwin Schrodinger
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of [...]
When you get bored, click something. If that doesn’t help, then turn off your computer immediately.
As developers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More APIs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts for our attention, keeping us up-to-date on our friends dietary details and movie attendance second-by-second. Does all this information take a toll on [...]
I might revel in the world of intelligibility which still remains to me, but although I have an idea of this world, yet I have not the least knowledge of it, nor can I ever attain to such knowledge with all the efforts of my natural faculty of reason. It is only a something that [...]
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing — a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind.
Hear Albert Einstein’s full quote here:
“It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing [...]