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 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.
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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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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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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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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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It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.
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When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
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It is moreover to weaken in those who profess this Religion a pious confidence in its innate excellence and the patronage of its Author; and to foster in those who still reject it, a suspicion that its friends are too conscious of its fallacies to trust it to its own merits.
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Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.
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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.
