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...Harvard professors, or those who die,” he said, citing as noteworthy recent acquisitions the collections of evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino university professor emeritus, and Thomas Professor of the History of Science emeritus I. Bernard Cohen—whose collection included a number of Isaac Newton??s manuscripts...
Here is my most important lesson learned. Whether or not one believes in fate or God or karma or coincidence or Newton??s Law—everything happens for a reason. Most of the time that reason is something out of our control. So if uncertainty is really the only thing we can count on, is it better to embrace it or to shy away? The answer, in my opinion, hardly renders me powerless over my future. Right now, I’ve got one foot in the door to the next phase of my life...
...correctness of that Standard Model. He debunks claims that science changes with time and culture, arguing that the physics of today is the same physics of Maxwell or Einstein at the turn of the century, only more detailed. Though we have much more accurate explanations of physical phenomena, Newton??s laws of nature remain logical simplifications of them, and are indeed still the first things taught to high school students...