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Albert Einstein's letter to Maria Skłodowska Curie, 1911: Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern h

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Notebook of Leonardo da Vinci, The Codex Arundel 📑 A collection of papers written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452, d. 1519), in his characteristic left-handed mirror-writing (reading from right to left), including diagrams, drawings and brief texts, covering a broad htt

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Schrödinger’s cat is not a real experiment, but a thought experiment, which means it is only imagined and not actually performed. Erwin Schrödinger came up with it to show the absurdity of applying quantum mechanics to everyday objects, such as cats. He did not intend to suggest

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An article about Nikola Tesla titled, “M: Tesla Explains Why He Will Never Marry” published in. Galveston Daily News, p. 23, ca. 1924. https://t.co/mY662RUrLL

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Aryabhatta wrote his most famous treatise, Aryabhatiya, when he was only 23 years old. It contains 121 verses on various topics of mathematics and astronomy, such as the value of pi, the solution of quadratic equations, the calculation of eclipses, and the motion of planets. http

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Neptune was the first planet to be discovered by mathematical prediction rather than direct observation. The planet was discovered on the night of September 23-24, 1846, by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle at the Berlin Observatory. He was following the calculations of

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Richard Feynman, the renowned physicist, also explored his artistic side under the pseudonym "Ofey," creating numerous drawings and paintings. His artistic work was not just a hobby but a significant aspect of his multifaceted genius. https://t.co/XXwsrNBFLq

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The genius of John von Neumann 🧠 He could speak eight languages by the age of six, including Ancient Greek and Latin. He could divide eight-digit numbers in his head at the age of six. He was familiar with differential and integral calculus by the age of eight. He entered the ht

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Schrödinger found his equation on a ski holiday he spent calculating ✍️ In November 1925 Schrödinger read de Broglie's thesis on matter waves and began looking for the equation such waves should obey. Over Christmas he went to Arosa in the Swiss Alps, staying at Dr Herwig's http

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In June 1926 Max Born submitted a paper on electron scattering in which he proposed, for the first time, that Schrödinger's wave-function does not describe a physical wave but determines the probability of where the electron goes. In the main text he wrote that the amplitude http

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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive

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When Einstein gave lectures at U.S. universities, the recurring question that students asked him most was: - Do you believe in God? And he always answered: - I believe in the God of Spinoza. https://t.co/yUziZPvQAa

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In the 1940s, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was committed to his teaching role at the University of Chicago, despite being based at the Yerkes Observatory. Each week, he traveled 80 miles to teach a special course attended by only two students. The students were Tsung-Dao Lee and

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If these are your lecture students, what would be the topic of your lecture? ✍️ https://t.co/pu64hX0hTu

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Mathematical Methods for Physicists by Arfken, Weber, and Harris ✍️ https://t.co/T7fDBzI8uv

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His proof was over 100 pages long and took him seven years to complete. ✍️ Fermat’s last theorem is one of the most famous and challenging problems in mathematics. It was first stated by Pierre de Fermat, a French lawyer and amateur mathematician, in the margin of a copy of http

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Cavendish's experiment is described in most textbooks as measuring the gravitational constant G. It did not; the paper is about determining the density of the Earth, and a 2025 survey of 84 textbooks found the error runs right through the 20th century. https://t.co/y0Zd8lSTbo

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Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is. -- Paul Erdős https://t.co/CERglSZnK3

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Blaise Pascal built a working mechanical calculator at age 19 to help his father do tax accounting. https://t.co/dn2sE3mp6j

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