Simon Singh quotes
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“All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.”
-- Simon SinghSource : Simon Singh (2004). “Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and why You Need to Know about it”
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“Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.”
-- Simon SinghSource : Simon Singh (2004). “Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and why You Need to Know about it”
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“We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.”
-- Simon SinghSource : "Katie Melua's bad science" by Simon Singh, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.
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“What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic... He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute then any previous knowledge.”
-- Simon SinghSource : "Fermat's Last Theorem". Book by Simon Singh, 1997.
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Source : "Producer Adam Shankman Talks STEP UP REVOLUTION Blu-ray/DVD, Future STEP UP Movies, Directing GLEE’s Upcoming Christmas Episode, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 27, 2012.
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”
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“Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped”
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