Nie PATRZ na wszystkie rzeczy w laboratorium fizyki, nie SMAKUJ wszystkiego w laboratorium chemicznym. Nie WĄCHAJ wszystkiego w laboratorium medycznym... a najważniejsze, nie SŁUCHAJ wszystkiego na wydziale filozofii.
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence
of a "hottest part" implies a temperature difference, and
any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run
a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This
is obviously impossible.
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed,
and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures,
what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?
I believe it is the atomic hypothesis, that all things are made of atoms – - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting
each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon
being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see,
there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just
a little imagination and thinking are applied.
Są fizycy utrzymujący, że rozumieją to [odmianę fizyki kwantowej] tak samo jak rozumieją czym są kamienie i szafy. W rzeczywistości rozumieją zgodność teorii z wynikami pomiarów.
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.