Quotes 15

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to
Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.
Albert Einstein

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact
on human history than any ten presidents.
Carl Sagan

All great progress takes place when two sciences come together,
and when their resemblance proclaims itself,
despite the apparent disparity of their substance.

Henri Poincare

There is only one corner of the universe you can
be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

The universe is watching and learning, through its pupils.
Ellie Crystal

Image by Hubble

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems
with which men will never have to cope.

Simon Newcomb

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our
modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill

Have I done the world good,

or have I added a menace?

Guglielmo Marconi

I doubt that the phenomenon was a terrestrial reflection, because...
nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since. I was so unprepared
for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.

- Clyde Tombaugh - Upon discovering Pluto - February 18, 1930

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there.
Man belongs wherever he wants to go
and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Wernher von Braun

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
We would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought
By Intellect in the Unseen residing,
And thine doth like a convict sit,
With marlinespike untwisting it,
Only to find its knottiness abiding;
Since all the tools for its untying
In four-dimensional space are lying,
Wherein they fancy intersperses
Long avenues of universes,
While Klein and Clifford fill the void
With one finite, unbouded homaloid,
And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.

James Clerk Maxwell

There is no such thing as matter.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of vibration.

We must assume that behind this vibration

a conscious and intelligent mind exists.

This mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Booth Tarkenton

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

If we take quantum theory seriously as a picture of what's
really going on, each measurement does more than disturb:
it profoundly reshapes the very fabric of reality.

Nick Herbert

Quantum mechanics and relativity, taken together, are extraordinarily restrictive, and they therefore provide us with a great logical machine. We can explore with our minds any number of possible universes consisting of all kinds of mythical particles and interactions, but all except a very few can be rejected on a priori grounds because they are not simultaneously consistent with special relativity and quantum mechanics. Hopefully in the end we will find that only one theory is consistent with both and that theory will determine the nature of our particular universe.
Steven Weinberg

1900 - The Theory of Relativity redefines time and space.
Albert Einstein publishes his Special Theory of Relativity, which postulates that
nothing can move faster than light, that time and space are not absolute,
and that matter and energy are equivalent (e=mc2).

2004 - Evicting Einstein NASA
A physics experiment on the drawing board for the International Space
Station could help find the grand unifying "Theory of Everything."

Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts.
There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice
than in any other branch of physics.

Aleister Crowley

The Spiral

The Clock - Time

The Alien Connection

The Golden Connection - Alchemy

Humanity is like a giant spiderweb. If you touch it anywhere, you set the whole thing trembling. As we move around this world and as we act with kindness, perhaps, or with indifference, or with hostility, toward the people we meet, we too are setting the great spider web a-tremble. The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place and time my touch will be felt. Our lives are linked. No man is an island.

Frederick Buechner - Our Lives Are Linked

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick - How to Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully
nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole Spaceship
and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Buckminster Fuller

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born. It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

James Henry Breasted

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the
most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact.
He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science."

Carl Sagan

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