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I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.

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In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain.

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Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

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To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.

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True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.

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It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.

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We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.

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The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.

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Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems.

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Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: January 30th, 1941

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