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For example, the law of conservation of energy, a fundamental principle of physics first described by Julius Robert von Mayer in 1842, tells us that energy in an isolated system, such as earth’s biosphere, can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another.
Gregg Braden • The Wisdom Codes: Ancient Words to Rewire Our Brains and Heal Our Hearts
“It is impossible to design an apparatus to determine which hole the electron passes through, that will not at the same time disturb the electrons enough to destroy the interference pattern.” If an apparatus is capable of determining which hole the electron goes through, it cannot be so delicate that it does not disturb the pattern in an essential
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Alexander Grothendieck was one of the most important mathematicians of the twentieth century.
Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
describe an approach that focuses on building an “atomic network”—that is, the smallest possible network that is stable and can grow on its own.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Albert Einstein: “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
Alice and Bob have agreed on a onetime pad, and the laws of quantum physics actually forbid Eve from successfully intercepting it.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
In 1949 Zipf discovered the “Principle of Least Effort,” which was actually a rediscovery and elaboration of Pareto’s principle. Zipf’s principle said that resources (people, goods, time, skills, or anything else that is productive) tended to arrange themselves so as to minimize work, so that approximately 20–30 percent of any resource accounted fo
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