I’ve been reading Stephen Jay Gould’s The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox (highly recommended, by the way) so perhaps I’m more aware than usual of crossovers between science and arts, but I think I’ve found a new analogy to use in lectures.
I visited the Hayward Gallery in London to see the Antony Gormley [...]
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Researching a column on Gravity probe B for the magazine, I came across the following quotation which I suspect I’ll be using in lectures from now on.
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Ptolomy invented a Universe and it lasted two thousand years. Newton invented a Universe and it lasted two hundred years. Now Dr Einstein has invented a new Universe, and [...]