Albert Einstein kept a photo of Maxwell on his study wall, alongside pictures of Michael Faraday and Isaac Newton. He referred to Maxwell's work as the "most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton." Maxwell's equations were integral

“In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.” Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Richard Feynman on how physics differs from mathematics.

Karl Marx proved calculus is fake in 1881. Truly the greatest mind of our age. Yet your capitalist math teacher will still make you do your homework. Curious.

This thread tells the story of how INSV Kaundinya came to be built. The ship will make its maiden voyage from Porbandar to Muscat, Oman on 29th December. Follow the handle @INSVKaundinya to get updates.

As always impeccable packaging from @PadhegaIndia_

What a coincidence !! Getting delivery of this two on the birth anniversary of ABV from @PadhegaIndia_ @chacchachoudhry

The Clausius statement of the second law leaves much to be desired. It is impossible to construct a device that operates in a cycle and produces no effect other than transferring energy from a thermal reservoir of low temperature to a thermal reservoir of high temperature.

Must short read imho "What Is Geometry?" 1) Axioms (Euclid) 2) Coordinates (Descartes, Fermat) 3) Calculus (Newton, Leibniz) 4) Groups (Klein, Lie) 5) Manifolds (Riemann) 6) Fiber bundles (E. Cartan, Whitney) "A property is geometric, if it does not deal directly with numbers"

In 1848, William Thomson proposed the absolute scale of temperature when he was 24. He was made Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow at the age of 22.

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The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. - Edward O. Wilson

18–25-year-old, well-off youth from top colleges in mega-metros, living on Instagram and café aesthetics, have zero connection with ground realities. And the cruel irony is that the children of poor and lower-middle-class families die young at the borders, so this curated,

It's fascinating that three of the most important developments in Indian science happened not in a laboratory or lecture hall, but in the most unlikely of places, on board a ship on an ocean voyage. The first was in 1893, on a voyage from Yokohama to Vancouver, when Swami

A civilization is built on a set of internalized values. Numerous civilizations have developed radically different visions of how to organize societies, and these have competed in process akin to Darwinian selection in establishing which civilizational ethos permits for maximal

True education should question assumptions, challenge dogma, and inspire curiosity, not enforce blind memorization or mediocrity. - Bertrand Russell

2082 years ago, King Balmitra of Bharuch of Gujarat defeated the Shaka ruler of Ujjain & became King Vikramaditya of Ujjain. In memory of his victory, he started Vikram Samvat.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. - Ivan Pavlov

What creates sustained economic growth? This year’s laureates used different methods to answer this question. Through his research in economic history, Joel Mokyr – awarded the 2025 prize in economic sciences – has demonstrated that a continual flow of useful knowledge is