I didn’t ask for twenty quarter-pound cheeseburgers, I asked for four quarter-pound cheeseburgers five times. Same thing, he said. It’s not the same thing at all. You can’t be this stupid. Two
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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that the electron is a particle but a particle that can be described in terms of waves.
Cosmological constant to his theory, at the Lowell Observatory in
The Super Constellations took three days to reach London [from Australia] and lacked the power or range to dodge most storms. When monsoons or cyclones were encountered, the pilots had no choice but t...
The poet Robert Browning caused considerable consternation by including the word in one of his poems, thinking it an innocent term. The work was , written in 1841 and now remembered for the line God'...
In 1906 he and Hulda made the first of several trips to London to sift through the records.
It really doesn’t pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it’s unlikely they will delight you now.
The fact that ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ science are useful and meaningful terms seduces us sometimes into thinking that they are real, absolute and distinct categories.
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. That’s all there is to it. Without doubt, the moose is the most improb...
Just reaching the centre of our own galaxy would take far longer than we have existed as beings.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
The proportions of these salts and minerals in our tissues are uncannily similar to those in sea water—we sweat and cry sea water, as Margulis and Sagan have put it—but curiously we cannot tolerate th...
Ruskin never escaped his prudish ways or gave any indication of desiring to. After the death of J. M. W. Turner, in 1851, Ruskin was given the job of going through the works left to the nation by the...
They determined, for instance, that a rusting object doesn’t lose weight, as everyone had long assumed, but gains weight – an extraordinary discovery.
We have a universe. It is a place of most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.
Before the shift house was pronounced hoose (it still is in Scotland), mode was pronounced mood, and home rhymed with gloom, which is why Domesday Book is pronounced and sometimes called Doomsday. (Th...
Of all the disciplines in science, paleoanthropology boasts perhaps the largest share of egos,
There is no law that requires the universe to fill itself with small particles of matter or to produce light and gravity and the other properties on which our existence hinges.
Wallace, King and Sanders point out in Biology: The Science of Life (that rarest thing: a readable textbook),
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