Phil: Dimensional phase change?"
Stephen Hawking: "However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
Phil: "There are limits of course. Abstraction is always incomplete. There is only one complete model of Reality. Full scale."
Stephen Wright: "You can't have everything, where would you put it?"
Isaac Newton: “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
Phil: "Did you see the Darryl Hannah version of 'Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman?'"
Barbara Seaman: Condoms should be marketed in 3 sizes, jumbo, colossal, and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small.
Werner Heisenberg: "It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consist only of processes involving exceedingly large numbers of atoms. Furthermore, it is very difficult to modify our language so that it will be able to describe these atomic processes, for words can only describe things of which we can form mental pictures, and this ability, too, is a result of daily experience. Fortunately, mathematics is not subject to this limitation, and it has been possible to invent a mathematical scheme - the quantum theory - which seems entirely adequate for the treatment of atomic processes; for visualization, however, we must content ourselves with two incomplete analogies - the wave picture and the corpuscular picture."
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