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American - Physicist | January 30, 1941 -

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

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To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.

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Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere.

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The simplest way to remove carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is to grow plants - preferably trees, since they tie up more of the gas in cellulose, meaning it will not return to the air within a season or two. Plants build themselves out of air and water, taking only a tiny fraction of their mass from the soil.

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Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles.

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In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

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I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.

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We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.

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True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.

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Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.

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Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems.

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The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.

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