Science
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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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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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Life Is Simple, JohnJoe McFadden (ISBN 978-1-529-36495-8, Basic Books)
I started reading this book at the end of August and only just finished it yesterday. My wife bought it at Dominicanen in Maastricht during our visit there in July and read it on vacation. She asked me to read it as well so we could exchange thoughts about it. The book is a history…
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Einstein’s Razor
‘Nature is the realisation of the simplest conceivable mathematical ideas.’― Albert Einstein
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The Grand Aim of Science
‘The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.’― Albert Einstein
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The Nature of Science
‘Science is not about finding any kind of ultimate truth, it is about building hypotheses or models that we use to make useful predictions.’― JohnJoe McFadden
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The Hot Zone, Richard Preston (ISBN 978-0552171649, Transworld Publishers)
A true story about an outbreak of an Ebola ‘variant’ in the US, Reston virus near Washington DC. The book has been criticised for sensationalizing the physical effects of Ebola and Marburg with people bleeding out and decomposing and turning into a bag of liquid. That is the graphical image you get from the cases…
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