Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Any working hypothesis was probably going to involve quantum theory at some point—the part of physics that made my brains trickle out of my ears.

Ben Aaronovitch

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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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.

  

  Carl Jung
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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.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
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• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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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.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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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.

  

  Abdus Salam
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• I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

  

  Jack Steinberger
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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.

  

  Sally Ride
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• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
  • Acting
  • Satisfaction
  • Brains

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Physics
  • Valuable

• For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Magic
  • Humans
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• I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Fact
  • Physics
  • Enjoyment

• 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.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Funny
  • Audience
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• In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.

  

  John Holt
  • Child
  • Force
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• The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
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  • Guard

• Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ethics
  • Physics
  • Relativity

• A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one’s wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop a solipsism of sorts. The world yields itself to your will. Everything becomes your reflection, and after a while looking into your own eyes is dull.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Society
  • Wealth
  • Artificial

• If you give up on trying to change larger structures and just go off on what some would say is a personal indulgence or being a survivalist, it can be seen as incredibly negative or pessimistic. But the other way to think of it is this: through manifesting the way we live and acting as if it's normal, you're defending yourself against depression and dysfunction, but you're also providing a model that others can copy. And that is absolutely about bringing large-scale change.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Trying
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• In an age of religious violence like ours, people care much less about what you believe, and much more about whether you will kill for what you believe. So if you haven’t figured out what you’re going to do with passages like Deuteronomy 7 and 1 Samuel 15 and Psalms 137:9, you still have some important work to do.3 If you haven’t grappled with these passages and others like them, your Bible is like a loaded gun and your theology is like a license to kill. You have to find a way to disarm your faith as a potential instrument of hate and convert it into an instrument of love.4 You have to convert Christianity from a warrior religion to a reconciling religion. Otherwise, your neighbors around this seminary will tolerate you the way they might tolerate a chemical plant that could at any moment blow up and kill them all.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Believe
  • Deuteronomy
  • Religious violence

• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Tree
  • Poem
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• Any working hypothesis was probably going to involve quantum theory at some point—the part of physics that made my brains trickle out of my ears.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Physics
  • Brains
  • Hypothesis