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Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge, because with imagination you can change reality. — Albert Einstein

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Electricity

Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. — Maya Angelou

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Quote: John Glenn

“I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.” – John Glenn

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Quote: “Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison”

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of … Continue reading

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“It was encouraging to learn that the work of predecessors could not be relied upon”

“Wilbur Wright said, on their way home after the 1901 gliding experiments, that he didn’t think man would fly in a thousand years. In a way, though, as Orville Wright said long afterward, it was encouraging to learn that the … Continue reading

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Hungary and Quantum Mechanics

My dear friend Ted wrote the following response to my recent blog entries. It’s such a terrific email that I asked if I could share it here. So here it is: “re Hungary – you’ve got to wonder, though, whether … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day: Fermat’s Enigma

The fame of Fermat’s Last Theorem comes solely from the sheer difficulty of proving it. An extra sparkle is added by the fact that the Prince of Amateurs said that he could prove this theorem that has since baffled generations … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day

“Geniuses are of two kinds: the ones who are just like all of us, but very much more so, and the ones who, apparently, have an extra human spark. We can all run, and some of us can run the … Continue reading

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