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Since the day Isaac Newton laid down his laws, a number of other kinds of laws have been suggested for fundamental physical systems. James Clerk Maxwell wrote down a set of equations for electricity and magnetism; Albert Einstein proposed an equation for the curvature of spacetime; Erwin Schrödinger suggested an equation for the wave function of a
... See moreSean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Scientific models that seek to predict the consequences of human actions with some reasonable accuracy—such as game theoretical models of economic behavior—for the most part ignore human individuality in favor of aggregated outcomes.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Wiener was as worldly as Shannon was reticent. He was well traveled and polyglot, ambitious and socially aware; he took science personally and passionately. His expression of the second law of thermodynamics, for example, was a cry of the heart: We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization, which tends to reduce everything to
... See moreJames Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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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
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are … part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” — Max Planck (1858–1947), physicist
Gregg Braden • The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles and Belief
The maximum rate at which information can be sent over a channel without errors is known as the channel’s capacity.