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“In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.”

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Book:V.

Source: V.

“I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .”

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Author:Peter J. Carroll

“Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.”

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Book:The decline and fall of science

Source: The decline and fall of science

“The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.”

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Author:Bill Gaede

“Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.”

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Book:Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

Source: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics