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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” ― Richard P. Feynman

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

The dark side of Saturn.

"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is a real factor in scientific research." - A. Einstein

Life Lessons from Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943): • Genius requires solitude. • Our mind is only the receiver. We need to tune it with the universe. • When someone says it can't be done, do it anyways. • Money does not represent such a value as people have placed upon it.

Legendary Apollo project programmer and computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, standing next to listings of the software she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo program, 1969. (MIT Museum image)

It is easier to say ammonium chloride than NH₄Cl

Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli discussing quantum mechanics, 1938.

244 is anti-perfect. The proper divisors are 1, 2, 4, 61, and 122, & adding their reversal is 1 + 2 + 4 + 16 + 221 = 244.

Nikola Tesla sitting in his laboratory with his "magnifying transmitter."

Arguably the most intelligent photo ever taken: Solvay Conference on quantum mechanics at the Institute International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium, in 1927. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.

Astronomer Vera Rubin at work at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ, 1965.  Rubin transformed modern physics and astronomy with her observations showing that galaxies and stars are immersed in the gravitational grip of vast clouds of dark matter.

Prof. Stephen Hawking in the 1970’s with his children Robert and Lucy.

"Teachers who make physics class boring are criminals." - Prof. Walter Lewin

A famous image of A. Einstein writing physics equations on a blackboard during a lecture at Caltech, c. 1931.

Basic physics

Carl Anderson with the magnet cloud chamber with which he discovered the positive electron, or positron (in 2 Aug, 1932) For this work he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936. (Cr: Caltech Archives Image)

Albert Einstein’s papers, pipe, ashtray and other personal belongings on his table -- just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it – taken mere hours after he died, Princeton, N.J., April 18, 1955. (Ralph Morse/Life Pictures/Getty Images)