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This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Surface areas of possible out-of-syncness.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Even in physics, some of the most fundamental explanations, and the predictions that they make, are not reductive.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
reflect only early difficulties and the rudimentary state of a first attempt to realize such a program.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
You might ask why we cannot teach physics by just giving the basic laws on page one and then showing how they work in all possible circumstances, as we do in Euclidean geometry, where we state the axioms and then make all sorts of deductions. (So, not satisfied to learn physics in four years, you want to learn it in four minutes?) We cannot do it i
... See moreRobert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
The big advantage of physicists—I think Doyne Farmer may have once said this to me—is not what they have learned, the tools. It’s how they have learned to think. In particular, physicists are quite good at being very, very broad, taking tools from all over the place. That is something that economists are very, very remiss in. It is a b—tch to try t
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