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Economical numbers

There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 7, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories debtTags Richard Feynman

Defining science

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 15, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories knowledgeTags Richard Feynman

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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