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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful read more
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past
centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential read more
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot read more
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him read more
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity.
I don't believe in mathematics.
I don't believe in mathematics.
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent
of the measurements. That is an electron has read more
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent
of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and
so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think
that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]
God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one
sentence: Time and space and graviton have no read more
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one
sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence
from matter.
