Quotes about science
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Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 147- Stephen Hawking1942–2018Reith Lecture 2: Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted (2015) · BBC Radio 4 audio file
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1838
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Between Planets (1951), Chapter 2, “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin” (p. 23)
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Initial statement of the Uncertainty principle in “Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik” in Zeitschrift für Physik, 43 (1927)- Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Werner Heisenberg1901–1976“Introductory” in The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (1930) as translated by Carl Eckhart and Frank C. Hoyt, p. 10
Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)- Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 30
Frank Herbert1920–1986“Introduction” to New World or No World (1970)I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
Werner Herzogborn 1942“Grizzly Man” (2006)
Geoffrey Hintonborn 1947Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (2000), On his childhood.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Writing for the Court, New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342 (1931).