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Grigori Perelman, mathematician who proved the Poincaré Conjecture and who refused to accept a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Clay Prize, spotted at a traffic signal.
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Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan discovered nearly 4,000 theorems and equations, unique and groundbreaking.
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Einstein slept nearly 10 hours a day. He valued the significance of quality sleep for maintaining his well-being. His sleep routine, though, was out of the ordinary.
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Oppenheimer's famous phrase, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," is a reference to a verse from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita. The verse in question is from Chapter 11, Verse 32, in which the deity Krishna reveals his divine form to the warrior Arjuna.…
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"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."
-- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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This is an actual picture of a molecule taken by IBM created by using a technique called Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM).
(Credit: IBM)
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The most beautiful equations in Physics and Mathematics.
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The science of global warming beautifully and simply explained by Dr. Carl Sagan, ca. 1985.
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The greatest Unsolved problems in Modern Physics.
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Brahmagupta was an ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer who lived in the 7th century CE. He made many important contributions to mathematics, especially in the fields of number theory, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.
He introduced the concept and computation methods…
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"Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence"
-- Dr. Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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Ramanujan: It came to me in my dream.
The dream:
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"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
-- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Physics Photo Of the Day:
First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galilei after observing it through his telescope in 1609.
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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
-- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”
- Maryam Mirzakhani
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[Left]: Transportation of Nike-Apache sounding rocket to Thumba on bicycle, India, 1963:
[Right]: Launch of LVM3-M4, Chandrayaan-3 Mission, 2023.
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Physics Photo Of the Day:
First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galilei after observing it through his telescope in 1609.
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Physicist Peter Higgs passed away at the age of 94 at his home in Edinburgh. RIP.
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Dr. Carl Sagan explains global warming in simple words in this 1985 video:
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-- Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018)
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When Oppenheimer met Einstein:
"Einstein, who had witnessed the cataclysmic potential of this energy, was cautiously wary. He cautioned against the unbridled release of such power, fearing its devastating consequences. Oppenheimer, however, saw a glimmer of controlled potential…
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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
-- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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Stunning photograph of the total solar eclipse on July 11, 1991, taken by Antonio Turok in Chiapas, Mexico.
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10 Solar eclipse facts that you probably didn't know about.
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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
— Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934)
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The last photograph taken of Nikola Tesla, 1st Jan 1943.
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The last photograph taken of Nikola Tesla, 1st Jan 1943.
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"Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows."
-- Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976)
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-- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Albert Einstein and Marie Curie discussing near a lake, c. 1929
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-- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Leonardo da Vinci's (1452–1519) drawing of the human spine.
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One of the most brilliant minds of all time, best known for designing the AC, which is the predominant electrical system used all across the world and the "Tesla coil," still used in radio technology, along with several other inventions.
Happy 165th Birthday to Nikola Tesla.
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First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galilei after observing it through his telescope in 1609.
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Wanna Learn Mathematics for Free?
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I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
— Richard Feynman
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- A. Einstein
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Physics Photo Of the Day:
The last photograph taken of Nikola Tesla, 1st Jan 1943.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Prof. Stephen Hawking in the 1970’s with his children Robert and Lucy.
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Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood actress and a brilliant inventor who made significant contributions to the field of wireless communication. She co-invented a technique called frequency hopping, which is the basis of modern technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.…
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Richard Feynman said, "There's no miracle people." ✍️
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The Longest Equation in Physics
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This is the most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, NMR and cryoelectron microscopy datasets.
‘Cellular landscape cross-section through a eukaryotic cell.’ - by Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill.
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Shiva Nataraj Statue at CERN, Geneva Switzerland.
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The most important equations in Physics and Mathematics 🧠
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A page from Sir Isaac Newton's handwritten Trinity College notebook written between 1661-1665.
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"Sir, an equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of GOD."
-- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)
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Nikola Tesla's prediction of a smartphone, Collier’s magazine interview, 1926:
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate…
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Physics Photo Of the Day:
First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galilei after observing it through his telescope in 1609.
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Physics Photo Of the Day:
Albert Einstein and Marie Curie discussing near a lake, c. 1929
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"Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence"
-- Dr. Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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"If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out."
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Schrödinger's cat made with Schrödinger's equation.
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Mathematician Paul Erdős used to work for nearly 19 hours a day doing math and often claimed that he requires only three hours of sleep. He published nearly 1500 papers on mathematics and co-authored with more than 250 mathematicians during his time. Erdös is credited for…
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Happy 154th Birthday to Marie Curie, a French-Polish physicist and chemist, best known for her pioneering research on radioactivity.
Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win in two fields, for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911.
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“Study the science of art and the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."
-- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Physics Photo Of the Day:
The last photograph taken of Nikola Tesla, 1st Jan 1943.
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Nikola Tesla's prediction of a smartphone, Collier’s magazine interview, 1926:
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"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."
-- A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Physics Photo Of the Day:
Albert Einstein and Marie Curie discussing near a lake, c. 1929
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“I need physics more than friends.”
— Robert Oppenheimer
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"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution."
- Aristotle
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
- A. Einstein (1879-1955)
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If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not understand it.
-- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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Richard Feynman was a brilliant physicist best known for his exceptional contributions to quantum mechanics and his captivating teaching style, among others.
Here are all of Feynman's Freely available Lectures at one place.
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"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
-- Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
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If A is success in life, then
𝐀 = 𝐱 + 𝐲 + 𝐳.
Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
— A. Einstein (1879-1955)
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"Not only the Universe is stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."
-- Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976)
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The shortest chapter ever in a Physics book.
From "Why String Theory?" by Joseph Conlon, CRC Press.
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