#article

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#atomic #between #careful #entities #experiment

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula. ↗

— Joe Queenan

#books #essays #humor #life #reading

The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money." "I hadn't known that," I said. "I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." "There might as well be," Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#particle-accelerators #science #money

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#articles #i #know #me #read

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. ↗

— Ian Anderson

#article #audience #awful #blue #boring

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#article #belief #employed #endeavor #establish

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#articles #criticizing #finally #i #listening

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

#articles #authorized #errors #established #extravagant

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted. ↗

— Phil Collins

#distorted #ended #few #last #little

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#both #cases #difficulty #experiment #form