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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.


Steve Jobs


#automatic #car #concept #drive #how

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.


Joseph Joubert


#logic #metaphysics #works

There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they were usually taught. There is a kind of unspoken collusion going on in mainstream science education: you get your competent but bored, insecure and hence stodgy teacher talking to an audience divided between engineering students, who are going to be responsible for making bridges that won’t fall down or airplanes that won’t suddenly plunge vertically into the ground at six hundred miles an hour, and who by definition get sweaty palms and vindictive attitudes when their teacher suddenly veers off track and begins raving about wild and completely nonintuitive phenomena; and physics students, who derive much of their self-esteem from knowing that they are smarter and morally purer than the engineering students, and who by definition don’t want to hear about anything that makes no fucking sense. This collusion results in the professor saying: (something along the lines of) dust is heavier than air, therefore it falls until it hits the ground. That’s all there is to know about dust. The engineers love it because they like their issues dead and crucified like butterflies under glass. The physicists love it because they want to think they understand everything. No one asks difficult questions. And outside the windows, the dust devils continue to gambol across the campus.


Neal Stephenson


#engineering #physics #school #attitude

الترويض و التحكم كمثل تجربة عبور الطريق، يجب عليك المشي قليلاً لمنطقة الاختناق حتى تستطيع العبور سريعاً و سالماً؛ فالاختناق يولّد التباطؤ، و التباطؤ يولّد رؤية أوضح و حلول أكثر، و اختيارات أدق و أبرح..


أنور هاني


#metaphysics #parapsychology #thriller #أبواب #inspirational

We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. Feeling that there must be more behind, we return to our starting point in human consciousness - the one centre where more might become known. There we find other stirrings, other revelations than those conditioned by the world of symbols... Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism. Surely then that mental and spiritual nature of ourselves, known in our minds by an intimate contact transcending the methods of physics, supplies just that... which science is admittedly unable to give.


Arthur Stanley Eddington


#physics #science #spirit #symbolism #nature

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.


Robert Anton Wilson


#philosophy #philosophical

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.


Bill Bryson


#quantum-physics #identity

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.


David R. Brower


#cancer #dna #dreaming #how #keep

If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.


John Cameron


#communicate #encourage #i #interested #like

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.


Thomas Cochrane


#biology #morals #must #physics #realm






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