There are other worlds and rational beings of a different and higher kind. The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived. - Kurt Gödel

James Clerk Maxwell's 1874 letter to Prof. Lewis Campbell ✍️ As for the atoms, they have been in far worse rows before they became naturalised in my brain, but they forget the days before, etc. At any rate the atoms are a very tough lot, and can stand a great deal of knocking

Physicist Max Planck suffered a lot of personal tragedies in his life. His wife Marie died of tuberculosis in 1909. His eldest son Karl was killed in action in World War I in 1916. His second son Erwin was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his involvement in a plot to assassinate

Some researchers, like physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, propose that consciousness arises from quantum processes within the brain. Their "Orchestrated Objective Reduction" (Orch-OR) theory suggests that quantum computations in microtubules within

In so far as theories of mathematics speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far as they are certain, they do not speak about reality. - A. Einstein

αβγ paper ✍️ The famous 1948 paper by Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe, and George Gamow laid the groundwork for the Big Bang theory and nucleosynthesis. The inclusion of Bethe's name was a playful addition to make the authors' initials spell "Alpher-Bethe-Gamow," mimicking the Greek

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, the most popular physics book ever written, are completely online. Read it here: Volume 1: feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html Volume 2: feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.html Volume 3: feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html

1953: Alan Turing’s handwritten letter to a friend where he explains his Solitaire method and advice on how to play the game.

So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different

George Dantzig once was late for the lecture at UC Berkeley where Prof. Jerzy Neyman had written two famously unsolved statistics problems on the blackboard. Assuming the problems to be a homework, Dantzig solved them - the solutions ended up being his entire PhD thesis.

Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan discovered nearly 4,000 theorems and equations, unique and groundbreaking. Some of his results were so advanced that they were not proven until decades after his death. He also anticipated some concepts that later became part of modern

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar lecturing at the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, 1972. Photograph by J. T. Stewart.

Dark energy, which makes up about 68% of the universe, is a complete mystery. We don't know what it is or how it works.

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Often referred to as the "Father of Fiber Optics," Narinder Singh Kapany coined the term "fiber optics" in 1956. He conducted pioneering research and published numerous papers on the subject, significantly advancing the technology. 📷 Joseph McKeown

John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1956 and developed the LISP programming language, which became the standard tool for AI research.

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. - Richard Feynman