Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Quotes
All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
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The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
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I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
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I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.
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I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.
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Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it’s OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved.
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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Geometry existed before creation.
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Where there is matter, there is geometry.
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That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
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I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.
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Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in which two contracting parties always both gain; consequently, society is an uninterrupted succession of advantages, unceasingly renewed for all its members.
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Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.
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All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
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No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.
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All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.
