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Heisenberg, who was attempting to hold German physics together, resented Schrodinger's departure, "since he was neither Jewish nor otherwise endangered."
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The Nazis confiscated his personal property, burned his works on relativity, and put a five-thousand-dollar bounty on his head.
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they left for California, Einstein had told his wife to take a good look at their house. "You will never see it again," he told her."
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Born, barred from teaching and worried about the ongoing harassment of his children, also immediately sought to leave Germany.
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1943 Bohr was tipped off by the Swedish ambassador in Copenhagen that he faced immediate arrest as part of the plan to deport all of Denmark's Jews.
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Though you are unaware of it, when you run cool wine over your tongue, you don't just taste its chemical composition; you also taste its price.
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volatile green lion in the central salt of Venus and distill. This spirit is the green lion the blood of the green lion Venus, the Babylonian Dragon that kills everything with its poison, but conquered by being assuaged by the Doves of Diana, it is the Bond of Mercury.
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regulations allow for up to ten insect fragments per thirty-one-gram serving.
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Meanwhile, a serving of broccoli may contain sixty aphids and/or mites,
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while a jar of ground cinnamon may contain four hundred insect fragments.
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in 1904 he applied for a promotion from patent clerk third class to patent clerk second class and was turned down.
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We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see. We in effect define degree of talent by degree of success and then reinforce our feelings of causality by noting the correlation. That's why although there is sometimes little difference in ability between a wildly successful person and one who is not as successful, there is usually a big difference in how they are viewed.
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The answer lies in a phenomenon called regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.
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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two
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A pygmy upon a gyants shoulder may see farther than the [giant] himself.
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Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors.
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if a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.
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Upon learning of the young man's interest in a physics book, Lindemann, a number theorist, abruptly ended the interview, saying, "In that case you are completely lost to mathematics."
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Unfortunately, in 1861, when he was forty, Buckle caught typhus while traveling in Damascus. Offered the services of a local physician, he refused because the man was French, and so he died.
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theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One. I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.
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They required three thousand Jews, the man said, and the line had apparently held 3,004.
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the destination was the local cemetery, where everyone was ordered to dig a mass grave and then was shot dead and buried in it.
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My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.
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Einstein, who was then a professor in Berlin, was by chance visiting Caltech in the United States the day Hitler was appointed.
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Instead, like Heisenberg, his priority seemed to be to preserve as much of German science as possible, while complying with all Nazi laws and regulations.
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People seemed to "decide" how much to eat based on box size as much as taste."
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One end of the spectrum of fantastical thinking is labeled "crackpot," and the other "visionary."
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Research suggests that when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.
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along with our responses to them, determine
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Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of others. --ALBERT EINSTEIN I
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Deep concentration causes the energy consumption in your brain to go up by only about 1 percent. No matter what you are doing with your conscious mind, it is your unconscious that dominates your mental activity--and therefore uses up most of the energy consumed by the brain. Regardless of whether your conscious mind is idle or engaged, your unconscious mind is hard at work doing the mental equivalent of push-ups, squats, and wind sprints. O
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Your amicable words mean nothing if your body seems to be saying something different. --JAMES BORG I
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Chemicals were easier to procure than friends, and when I wanted to play with them they never said they had to stay home to wash their hair or, less politely, that they didn't associate with weirdos.
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Our species had to engage in complex cooperative behavior in order to survive in the wild, and--as I keep reminding my teenage children--pointing and grunting get you only so far.
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a thousand years without a bath.
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few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,"15 Lerner concluded that "for the sake of their own sanity," people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success."
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the invention of mummification. This was believed to be the key to a happy afterlife; certainly there were no disgruntled customers coming back to say otherwise.
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paleontological evidence suggests that the early farmers had more spinal issues, worse teeth, and more anemia and vitamin deficiencies--and died younger--than the populations of human foragers who preceded them.
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research on hunter-gatherer groups ranging from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries shows that the average nomad worked just two to four hours each day.
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discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Gobekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.
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Stephen Hawking once told me that there was a sense in which he was glad to be paralyzed, because it allowed him to focus much more intensely on his work.
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Michael Jordan once said, "I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
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Newton was "not finally reducible to the criteria by which we comprehend our fellow human beings."
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That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set--the set of people who don't give up.
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