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
