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Quantum mechanics, as it was beginning to be called, was a science of deep surprises, where theory had largely outpaced the proof of experimentation. Some years later the physicist Richard Feynman would elegantly explain that “it was discovered that things on a small scale behave nothing like things on a large scale.” In the quantum world, for
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Chaos Theory
Matt Mower • 1 card
Richard Feynman • "Seeking New Laws"
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynman
Matter
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
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I’m talking about people’s opinions of each other and of how the world works.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
quantum stuff
Mary Martin • 2 cards