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Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
This, after all, is the scientist’s calling: to imagine or to do what no one has done before.
Giorgio Parisi • In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems
He’d heard Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate in physics, hold forth on seemingly every subject under the sun. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, “You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.”
Michael Lewis • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
revolution in physics if it were true. It meant a new theory was needed. I followed this up with further research to verify what I had heard. I discovered that there were published papers on this subject, in fact there was a great deal of confirming research, but I had never known to look for it before. Probably I wouldn’t have believed it before.
... See moreMark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
This curious gain of an effective additional dimension is a general feature of space-filling curves, to which I will return in the next chapter.
Geoffrey West • Scale
One after another, the greatest figures in physics seemed to develop an unexpected late-career interest in the mystery of life itself, even taking abrupt shifts toward the formal study of biology.
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
and introduce ideas of renormalization group flows to the stochastic dynamics of finite populations