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The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
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Are we making more mistakes now? I don't think so. Science is a high-risk activity. And when you do science—this is very important incidentally for the general public, and for policy makers—if you are not wasting some of your money, you are not doing good science. It's a funny way to say this. You've got to back high-risk opportunities. And high-risk opportunities means some fraction of them are going to fail. And I think in any science funding scenario, you've got to say, 10, 20, maybe even 30% of your funds are going to be invested in failures.
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The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.
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Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.
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Leon M. Lederman
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Born:
July 15, 1922
Died:
October 3, 2018
(aged 96)
Bio:
Leon Max Lederman was an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos.
Known for:
The God Particle (1993)
Beyond the God Particle
Quantum Physics for Poets (2010)
Symmetry and the beautiful universe
From quarks to the cosmos (1989)
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