Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form
. . . things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules. . . Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me. It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.