Saturday, December 14, 2013

my academic genealogy

Max Born (Göttingen, 1907)
Victor Weisskopf (Göttingen, 1931)
Robert Dicke (Rochester, 1939)
Jim Peebles (Princeton, 1962)
Margaret Geller (Princeton, 1975)
Joe Mohr (Harvard, 1995)

Wednesday, August 07, 2013

feynman on religion

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
~ richard feynman

to do science

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
~ richard feynman

 

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

oprah says

There is no such thing as failure; failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
~oprah winfrey

Friday, June 28, 2013

the trick

the trick, william porter, is not minding that it hurts
~ lawrence of arabia

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

my taiwan tour

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