A universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. Tribute to the great explainer. Tweets about Science and Wisdom. Portrait by L.V Patten.
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18 Jun 2025
If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out.
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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
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Jun 10
If you're not having fun asking questions, you're not doing science right.
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Jun 3
Knowledge grows when you ask stupid questions. Stupidity grows when you don't ask anything.
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Jun 3
Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"
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May 30
Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.
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May 29
whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.
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May 29
Instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons," chemists say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."
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May 28
I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
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May 27
There are two possible outcomes:
• If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement.
• If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
-- Enrico Fermi
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May 23
If you cannot explain it in simple terms, you don't understand it well enough.
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May 21
You don't wanna work somehwere where you do not feel supported and validated, where you feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, where you don't have time and space to truly rest.
No one wants to trade in hours of their life to "earn" necessities.
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May 18
The fastest way to learn is to try, fail, and write down why you failed.
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May 14
Do what interests you the most. Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn’t matter.
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May 11
Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.
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May 10
You see, I get such a fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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May 7
In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be “known” with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.
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May 6
Being wrong is fine; being comfortably wrong is where trouble begins.
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