Zitat des Tages von Antony Garrett Lisi:
If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong.
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
Science is our last and greatest frontier.
Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.
My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.
As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.
Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.
Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.
