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    One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that it is dimension-free. ...Werner Heisenberg once proclaimed that all the quandaries of quantum mechanics would shrivel up when 137 was finally explained.

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    We have jerks, assholes, and those who are just dumb...dumb!""You mean relative to you others," my mother once protested."No, Mom, dumb like anyone is dumb.""So how did he get a Ph.D.?""Sitzfleisch, Mom."Sitzfleisch: the ability to sit through any task, to do it again and again until the job is somehow done. Those who give out Ph.D.'s are human too - sooner or later they give in.

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    The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God...

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    The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt.

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