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.
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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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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
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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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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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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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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.
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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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I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
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What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.
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Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
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I firmly believe that if you help a woman, then you educate a child, you help the family. Because women are very focused on health care and education and on the family. So if you help a woman, you help the family, you help the village, you help the country. And so empowering women is a very important part of moving, not just women forward, but the economy of the nation forward. Particularly in very substandard nations.
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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
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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.
