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In your everyday life, you don’t need to know the formula or even have a solid mathematical understanding of the theorem to use its basic principle.
Albert Rutherford • Statistics for the Rest of Us: Mastering the Art of Understanding Data Without Math Skills (Advanced Thinking Skills Book 4)
we draw a sphere centered on the sun, the lines of force all pass through that sphere. If we draw another sphere with a bigger radius, the same lines will pass through it, but they will
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
if we look at very tiny particles (colloids) in water through an excellent microscope, we see a perpetual jiggling of the particles, which is the result of the bombardment of the atoms. This is called the Brownian motion.
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Max Planck proposed that light and other electromagnetic radiation, which had hitherto been regarded as waves, paradoxically behaved like tiny packets of energy, or “quanta,” when interacting with matter.
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, • Six Easy Pieces
Powell's method
en.wikipedia.orgPollock’s paintings are ‘fractal’; tiny sections of the work mimic the structure of the whole; simple geometric patterns are repeated in different magnifications.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them


