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"A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane." -[[Josiah Willard Gibbs|J. Willard Gibbs]] |
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"Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table, you may also be using the table to measure the ruler." |
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.” -William James
It is never too late to grow reasonable and wise; but if the insight comes late, it is always harder to bring it into play.
"Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility may rest assured that he seeks in vain." — Hermann von Helmholtz Academic Discourse (Heidelberg 1862)[1]
"Consider the gifts of mind: How many are there in the world stupid, frantic, and mad-and why are not you of this number?" - Introduction to the Devout Life
Domain of interests"A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane." -J. Willard Gibbs
"Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table, you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."
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