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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
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The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.
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Everything is made of atoms. Everything that animals do, atoms do... There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.
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Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall have to choose!
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But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
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'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this, that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment, and as nature undergoes its multitude of changes, this number doesn't change. That is, if you calculate again, this quantity, it'll be the same as it was before. An example is the conservation of energy: there's a quantity that you can calculate according to a certain rule, and it comes out the same answer after, no matter what happens, happens.
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