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Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne has made profound contributions to our understanding of astrophysics and gravitational physics, primarily focusing on gravitational waves and the properties of black holes and wormholes. His works in predicting gravitational waves is among his…

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

- Werner Heisenberg

The Pizza Theorem states that if a pizza is divided by straight cuts (radii of the pizza) through a common point (not necessarily the center), and the number of cuts is a multiple of four (4, 8, 12, etc.), then it is possible to divide the pizza into equal-area slices among two…

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... and sometimes weird!

Math is beautiful ✍️

The Shoelace Theorem (or Gauss's Area Formula) ✍️

The area of a polygon, whether convex or concave, can be determined by the coordinates of its vertices with a simple formula that resembles the process of lacing a shoelace.

This theorem is particularly useful for computer…

12 April, 1981: World's first space shuttle (Columbia STS-1) was launched, carrying astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into an Earth orbital mission, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

📷 NASA

The delights of science and mathematics—their revelations of natural beauty and harmony, their visions of thing to come, and the joy of discovery in itself, the light and shadow it casts on the mystery dance of mind and nature—are too profound, and too important, to be left to…

A. Einstein explains the aim of science (1936) ✍️

The aim of science is, on the one hand, a comprehension, as complete as possible, of the connection between the sense experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the accomplishment of this aim by the use of a minimum…

Arnold Sommerfeld (Left) and Niels Bohr (Right) famous for their Bohr-Sommerfeld atomic model, pictured together in 1919.

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Max Planck was a musical prodigy who could play the piano, organ, and cello. He even composed his own songs and operas. He once said,

“The main source of all the greatest achievements in natural science, I am convinced, lies in the divine gift of musicality.”

In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.

-- Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907)

The Pizza Theorem states that if a pizza is divided by straight cuts (radii of the pizza) through a common point (not necessarily the center), and the number of cuts is a multiple of four (4, 8, 12, etc.), then it is possible to divide the pizza into equal-area slices among two…

27th December, 1855: Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution. Artwork by Alexander Blaikley.

While Faraday lacked in formal schooling, he made up for with self-education. He was an avid reader, and at the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder where he had…

Michael Faraday on the beauty of science ✍️

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with…

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

- Werner Heisenberg