PeeCleemens
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Reducing my shaving footprint
My shaving habits have changed a couple of times. I started with some disposable Gilette type, then switched to the types where you could change the blades, went to an electric shaver from Philips or Braun, back to Gilette and then finally back to a modern Philips shaver. The reason why I changed often was…
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Zero. The biography of a dangerous idea, Charles Seife (ISBN 978-0285635944, Souvenir Press Ltd)
A little book from 2000 about the history of the number zero and the linked concepts of void and infinity. It explains how Greek philosophy struggled with the void and the concept of zero and how then later on prevailing Aristotelian philosophy in the Middle Ages in Europe retarded in the introduction and use of…
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The virtue of solitude
‘Put 2 men together and they quarrel. A hundred of them make a rabble, and if there are a thousand or more, they’ll start a war.’― Bernhard Schmidt
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Something for Nothing
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.’― The second law of Thermodynamics
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The fate of a star
The star, like the Cheshire Cat, fades from view. One leaves behind only its grin, the other, only its gravitational attraction.’― John Archibald Wheeler
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The Nature of Vacuum
To physicists, vacuum has all particles and forces latent in it. It is a far richer substance than the philosopher’s nothing.’― Sir Martin Rees
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Divine numbers
God made integers, all the rest is the work of man.’― Leopold Kronecker
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The nature of man
‘What is man in nature ? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.’― Blaise Pascal
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