In the golden age of Vienna, two brilliant thinkers vied to shape the future of physics. Their passionate struggle led directly to the quantum and relativity revolutions. History of science at its most gripping! THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE Preorder now: amazon.com/gp/product/154160… hachettebookgroup.com/titles…

In the golden age of Vienna, two brilliant thinkers vied to shape the future of physics. Their passionate struggle led directly to the quantum and relativity revolutions. History of science at its most gripping! THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE Preorder now: amazon.com/gp/product/154160… hachettebookgroup.com/titles…

'We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.' -John Archibald Wheeler

'A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of others.. I regard class differences as contrary to justice.. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally' -Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

'About your cat, Mr. Schrödinger — I have good news and bad news.' (Benjamin Schwartz, New Yorker)

'Universal education is probably a good thing, but you could teach good as well as bad—you can teach falsehood as well as truth... You can communicate truth and you can communicate lies. You can communicate threats or kindness.' -Richard Feynman, Galileo Symposium, 1964

Albert Einstein, before, during, and after reading all of the books, magazines, and research articles in his extensive library 🤔

J David Jackson, who wrote a classic text on Electrodynamics used by PhD physics students for decades, had a strong interest in history of physics. While visiting the National Portrait Gallery, he snapped these photos of Benjamin Franklin & David Rittenhouse portraits, which he shared with me several years before he passed away.

Advice for the Musical at Heart: An Interview with Musician Curt Smith of Tears for Fears about Psychology and Philosophy in the Music He Sings, Writes, and Values: medium.com/@phalpern/advice-… #CurtSmith #TearsForFears

'It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.' -Albert Einstein

The eight "makers of universes" according to renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw: Pythagoras Aristotle Ptolemy Copernicus Galileo Kepler Newton Einstein nytimes.com/1930/11/02/archi… #science

"I don't believe in atoms" -Ernst Mach, 1897 "Don't believe atoms. They make up everything." -T-Shirt Logo, 2026 #GreatAtomDebate #Mach #Boltzmann

Paul Halpern's new book garners endorsements from Nobel laureate P. James E. Peebles, praising it as 'a fascinating account of the roles Ernst Mach and Ludwig Boltzmann played in the establishment of modern physics.' THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE amazon.com/gp/product/154160…

'The meaning of relativity has been widely misunderstood, Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll ... It does not mean that everything in life is relative and that we have the right to turn the whole world mischievously topsy-turvy.' -Albert Einstein

"May the spirit of Newton’s method give us the power to restore unison between physical reality and the profoundest characteristic of Newton’s teaching—strict causality." -Albert Einstein (Speech on the 200th anniversary of Newton’s death, 1927) #Einstein #Newton #science

On his 84th birthday, inventor Thomas Edison was interviewed by his friend Harvey Firestone, founder of Firestone tires Firestone asked Edison "What do you think of Einstein's theory?" Edison responded, "I don't think anything of Einstein's theory because I can't understand it"

Remarkable letter from Thomas Jefferson to scientist David Rittenhouse dated Sept 18, 1787 (the final day of the US Constitutional Convention) listed for sale by the Raab Collection. Jefferson told Rittenhouse that he sent him a chemistry book by Fourcroy raabcollection.com/president…

n 1933, a right-wing group called the Woman Patriot Corporation branded Albert Einstein a 'radical' because of his pacifist and democratic socialist views and tried to get him banned from the USA. Luckily they were unsuccessful.