It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing … - Robert B. Laughlin

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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

Robert B. Laughlin

It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed[. . ].

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The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

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Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control. . . Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone's permission or explaining itself.

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A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

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In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

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The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

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