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  • The marvellous existence of bookstores

    ‘The marvel is, indeed, that the bookseller ever survives at all. It is as if a haberdasher, in addition to meeting all the hazards of the current fashion, had to keep in stock a specimen of every kind of shirt, collar, sock, necktie and undershirt in favour since 1750‘― H. L. Mencken

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  • Enormous

    ‘Let Your enormous Library be justified.‘― Jorge Luis Borges

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  • A universe filled with extra dimensions

    ‘The physics of extra dimensions is a revolution in the making. If the extra dimensions exist, the visible universe is just a slice. The rest is terra incognita.‘― Joseph Lykken

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  • GUT gut gut

    ‘One theory to rule them all, One theory to find them, One theory to quantize them all, And in the darkness bind them, In the land of Brane where the shadows lie.‘― Paul Halpern

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  • Not Polite

    ‘Unfortunately I don’t issue visas from Switzerland, so I cannot stop you coming.‘― Wolfgang Pauli answering Stanley Deser who wanted to come and visit him

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  • Long Live the New Theory of Einstein!

    ‘The old theory of Einstein is dead. Long live the new theory of Einstein.‘― Wolfgang Pauli

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  • Discover the Unique Pont de Claies in Vresse-sur-Semois

    We went for a weekend to Vresse-sur-Semois. We rented a house with a group of friends and spent time catching up and going for a day hike. The village is close to the French border and nearby Rochehaut is probably better known. As the name suggests the village lies next to the river Semois. So one of the popular things to do is to rent a kayak and paddle downstream for some kilometers. There are many places along the river where you can get a kayak and typically you then can take a ride back to the starting point in…

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  • My Running Journey: From Gaps to Goals

    After many years of not running I got back into it during the first covid wave (not much else to do). But then, as activity resumed again I lost the rhythm once more in 2022 and 2023. I kept on running but with gaps here and there and a too low weekly frequency. So last year in 2024 as I turned 55 I decided to put as a minimum goal to run 55 times and run at least once a week. A mild target but because we had really terrible weather to my taste this winter with a lot of…

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  • Priorities

    ‘In our civilisation the most important decisions are selecting one’s marriage partner and choosing one’s career.‘― Theodor Kaluza

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  • Understanding the fourth dimension

    ‘Every boy in the streets of our mathematical Göttingen understands more about four-dimensional geometry than Einstein. Yet, despite that, Einstein did the work and not the mathematicians.‘― David Hilbert

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