Quotes
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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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The Birth of Zero
‘In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.’― Tobias Danzig, Number: The Language of Science
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