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...real sense my last, since the rest is mere technique, which can be learnt from books. ...attention to fundamental truths, and has laid down basic principles, which physicists have followed ... often without knowing it, and generally without quoting h ...

...s at least a part of the energy, and that it is capable of transferring it from point to point. ...lighted waves of pressure are sent out from it—pressing against the source from which they start, pressing against every surface which they illuminate. It ...

...ientist)|Thomas Young]]. He became a deacon, then priest, in the Church of England, and later, Vicar of Wymewold and [[w:Dean of Ely|Dean of Ely]] cathedral, ...''[https://books.google.com/books?id=43SBAAAAIAAJ Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century]'' (1916) ...

* '''Perhaps the first to approach the fourth dimension from the side of physics, was the Frenchman, [[Nicole Oresme]], of the fourteent ...e past must be recalled by the dubious aid of memory, the future is hidden from us, and only the present is directly experienced. This striking dissimilari ...

...ew I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. So we are not exactly computers.''' There's somet ...f quantum field theory important to biology? Shall we gain needed insights from the study of quantum toy models? Do we really need to move forward to radic ...

...le:Dirac,Paul 1929 Chicago.jpg|thumb|right|It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting [[beauty]] in one's equations, and if one has * At the beginning of time the laws of Nature were probably very different from what they are now. Thus '''we should consider the laws of Nature as continu ...

...account that most important faculty which distinguishes topics of interest from others; in fact, we are regarding the function of the mathematician as simp ...which Turing was a fictionalized character. It shared a page with a quote from Imelda Marcos. ...

...rinceton University]] for the rest of his career. He died of complications from [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] at age 82. * When I was on the train from [[Liverpool]] to [[Cambridge]] to become a student, it occurred to me that ...

* The subject of this book is the structure of space-time on length-scales from 10^-13cm, the radius of an elementary particle, up to 10<sup>28</ ...managed, however, only because of the large amount of help I have received from my wife, children, colleagues and students. I find that people in general a ...

...{\mu \nu} \qquad .\;.\;.\;.\;.\;.\; (1)</math></center>in all regions free from matter and electromagnetic field, where <math>G_{\mu \nu}</math> is the con ...nstant [[w:Riemann curvature tensor|Riemann curvature]], and any deviation from this fundamental solution is to be directly attributed to the influence of ...

...llectual Cooperation|International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation]] from 1925 to his death. ...7. Lecture delivered before the 73rd Naturforscher Versammlung at Hamburg. From the ''Physikalische Zeitshrift'', of October 1, 1901. ...

...om|free]] [[government]] exempt from [[king]]s and [[priest]]s and to free from this double yoke the long usurped soil of Europe. I readily became enamored ** Letter to Edmé Pierre Alexanre Villetard (June/July, 1795) from prison, as quoted by {{w|John Herivel}}, ''Joseph Fourier—The Man and the P ...

** [[w:Peter Bergmann|Peter G. Bergmann]], ''The Riddle of Gravitation: From Newton to Einstein to Today's Exciting Theories'' (1968) pp. 25-26. ** [[w:Peter Bergmann|Peter G. Bergmann]], ''The Riddle of Gravitation: From Newton to Einstein to Today's Exciting Theories'' (1968) p. 26. ...

* In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory. ** from Boltzmann's notes for his lecture on natural philosophy given on October 24 ...

...one of the destroyers of that great seate, and '''a purger of the world''' from Antichristianisme, '''who purgeth not his owne countrie? Shall he purge his ...bursted I oute in continuall reasoning against my said familiar, but also from thence forth I determined with myself by the assistance of God's spirit to ...

*... most physicists would probably agree that the place of local fields is nowhere so secure as ...semanticscholar.org/c869/e99621b446230976eb942ba39d8acc289e0f.pdf}} (quote from p. B1049) ...

* '''Madam, I have come from a country where [[people]] are hanged if they [[talk]].''' ...russia, on his lack of conversation in his meeting with her, on his return from Russia; as quoted in ''Science in Russian Culture : A History to 1860'' (19 ...

...nce there may be any thing else which is not moved; but nothing hinders it from being naturally adapted to be moved: for '''earth also is not borne along; ...are used by philosophers to signify certain natures, precise and abstract from all these, which are neither subject to the senses, nor can be understood b ...

'''[[w:Infinity|Infinity]]''' (symbolzed: ∞) is a term derived from the Latin ''infinitas'' or "unboundedness" denoting concepts involving limi ...|Hobbes]] was fighting [[John Wallis|Wallis]] over the indivisible line in England, the [[w:Society of Jesus|Society of Jesus]] was leading its own campaign a ...

...k mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by [[Raphael]] in this detail from ''The School of Athens''.<ref>No likeness or description of Euclid's physic ...s does not correspond to simple observation … [[Euclid]]'s postulates came from the Pythagorean theorem, not the other way around. ~ [[Richard Hamming]] ]] ...