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Oppenheimer
‘God knows I’m not the simplest person, but compared to Oppenheimer, I’m very, very simple.‘― Isidor Rabi
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Speculation
‘There’s speculation, and then there’s more speculation, and then there’s cosmology.‘― Michio Kaku
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Italië
‘De begeerte om dit land te zien was overrijp; pas nu ze bevredigd is, krijg ik mijn vrienden en vaderland weer innig lief en wordt mijn terugkeer wenselijk, en wel temeer omdat ik het stellige gevoel heb dat ik zovele schatten niet tot eigen bezit en eigen gebruik meeneem, maar dat ze mij en anderen…
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Think Different
‘Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holees. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t…
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Of God and Men
‘Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men.‘― Paul Ramsey
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Science and Method
‘The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and het takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.‘― Henry Poincare, Science & Method, 1908
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No more ICE
I learned earlier this week from a colleague that ICE can also stand for Internal Combustion Engine. It was his own invention no doubt but he said he got a personalised number plate with ICE on it when he switched to an electric car. He had overlooked that ICE in the US also stands for…
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Napoleon. Deel 1: van strateeg tot Keizer, Johan op de Beeck (ISBN , 9789022329115, WPG Uitgevers)
Read this biography a second time while on vacation in Austria. I had read the book a few years ago when it first came out in 2019. As the title says it is the first part of a 2 book biography, spanning a little over 1000 pages in total. Johan Op De Beeck worked many…
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