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“Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that prevent us from seeing the world with perfect clarity. We aspire to be perfect Bayesian abductors, impartially reasoning to the best explanation - but most often we take new data and squeeze it to fit with our preconceptions.”

Science Humanity Human Nature

Author:Sean Carroll

“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas—than quantum mechanics.”

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Book:The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Source: The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

“The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.”

Science The Pointless Universe

Author:Sean Carroll

“There are the force particles that carry gravity and electromagnetism and the nuclear forces, which hold the matter particles together. And then there is the Higgs, in its own unique category.”

Science Physics

Book:The Particle at the End of the Universe

Source: The Particle at the End of the Universe

“Gone are the days—as recent as the first half of the twentieth century—when a genius like Italian physicist Enrico Fermi could propose a new theory of the weak interactions, then turn around and guide the construction of the first self-sustained artificial nuclear chain reaction”

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Book:The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Source: The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

“At one point Pope Pius XII tried to suggest that the Primeval Atom could be identified with “Let there be light” from Genesis, but Lemaître himself persuaded him to drop that line of reasoning.”

Science Physics

Book:The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Source: The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

“To be honest, physicists don’t react with unalloyed approval when I tell them about The Particle at the End of the Universe. As far as we know there isn’t any “end” to the universe, either at some location in space or at some future moment in time. And if there were a location where the universe could be said to end, there’s no reason to think you would find a particle there. And if you did, there’s no reason to think it would be the Higgs boson.”

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Book:The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Source: The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World