Science
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Cheljabinsk-65. A nuclear accident waiting to happen again
Cheljabinsk-65 is nowadays known as Mayak, one of the biggest nuclear complexes in the world. In 1957 a tank with nuclear waste exploded at Mayak, spreading nuclear materials for miles around. The Soviet government hushed up the accident. They also didn’t inform people living there that the facility was dumping radioactive waste water in the…
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Wave mechanics
‘I don’t like it, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it.‘― Erwin Schrodinger
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Quantum Mechanics
‘Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.‘― Niels Bohr
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Stamp collecting
‘All science is either physics or stamp collecting.‘― Ernest Rutherford
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What we know about atoms
‘‘Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.‘― Jabberwocky poem
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Law of nature
‘If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you’ve just proven a natural law.‘― Grace Hopper
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True understanding
‘I never am really satisfied that I understand anything, because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me.‘― Ada Lovelace
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Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe
‘We have peered into a new world, and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way.‘― Vera Rubin
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Victory to stupidity
‘The tension between nature and humans’ interaction with it is an enormous battle between man’s intelligence and his stupidity. And I am not at all sure that stupidity isn’t going to win out in the long run.‘― Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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