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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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  • Success

    ‘Love and Ambition are the wings to success.’― Juan Carrasco

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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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  • Nought

    ‘I am in a sense something intermediate between God and nought.’― René Descartes

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  • First rides in the wet with Pinion and carbon belt

    With the weather turning wet I had my first couple of commutes in the rain on my new bike with Pinion gears and a carbon belt. On my previous bike a ride in such conditions would mean cleaning and greasing the chain again or suffering a screeching chain on the next ride with a loss off efficiency in transferring muscle power to motion. For that reason I went for a belt on my new bike. And I have to say the first experience doesn’t disappoint. No cleaning and greasing obviously and no impact at all on the ride quality or…

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  • No Time To Die

    Yesterday I watched the latest James Bond instalment on tv with the kids. We had an unexpected free Saturday evening with everyone home and no early Sunday hockey appointments so we took the opportunity to watch this more than two and a half hour long movie. This is apparently the 25th JB movie and I was curious to see if I would like the movie as the reception was a bit mixed with some not liking the story much. I wasn’t disappointed myself. The movie builds on the story and characters introduced in Spectre and I personally like No Time…

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    No Time To Die