History Club

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Nikola Tesla claimed to love a specific white pigeon that visited him daily, calling it “the purpose of my life” in his later, reclusive years.

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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

-- A. Einstein (1879-1955)

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- Paul Dirac ✍️

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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

- Dr. Carl Sagan

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“Theoretical physics is actually philosophy.”

— Max Born

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Edward Witten describes the essence of Physics ✍️

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Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar with his uncle CV Raman, the only two Physics Nobel laureates from India.

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Michael Faraday, who discovered electromagnetic induction, had almost no formal mathematics training and visualised fields using physical intuition instead of equations.

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You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Fall in love with some activity and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn't matter.

- R. Feynman

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

- John von Neumann

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

- John von Neumann

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“The ideal subject of totalitarianism... is people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

— Hannah Arendt

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“Resist much, obey little.”

— Walt Whitman

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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

- Albert Einstein

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I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people.

- R. Feynman

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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

-- W. Heisenberg
(Physics and Philosophy, 1958)

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“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

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"Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true."

-- Niels Bohr

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“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

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Beyond her acting career, Hedy Lamarr co-patented a “frequency-hopping” spread-spectrum system for guiding torpedoes in 1942—technology that later formed the basis for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth—and was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.