Joao Magueijo Quotes

• Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.

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  Trying, Scientist, Term

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

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  Games, Insult, Humans

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• For instance, the blood of hibernating arctic squirrels may supercool to minus 3 degrees, when it would normally congeal. The supercooled blood still flows, since it remains a liquid, but the slightest disturbance will cause it to freeze, killing the squirrel; therefore, you should not disturb hibernating arctic squirrels.

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  Squirrels, Blood, Degrees

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine, and this made the universe inflate rather than just expand. The early orgy of expansion in the universe comes to an abrupt end as soon as the supercooled particle stuff finally freezes.

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  Baby, Blessed, Expansion

  Joao Magueijo (2011). “Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, p.152, Random House

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• Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

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  Nature, Real, Sweat

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also stated that we should never believe an observation until it is confirmed by a theory.

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  Believe, Sometimes, Should

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• ...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

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  Science, Curiosity, Losing

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• Thus, the distance between any two galaxies increases in time, creating the illusion of mechanical motion. But in reality, galaxies just sit there, contemplating the spectacle of the universe creating more and more space in between them.

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  Distance, Reality, Two

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• I've always felt that copious use of the word 'something' allows anyone to solve any problem, even insoluble ones.

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  Use, Problem, Solve

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.

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  Work, Thinking, Office

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• Las anotaciones de mi diario durante este periodo se refieren constantemente a la importancia de aprender a aceptar las críticas. Si te encierras en tu pequeño mundo, eso será la muerte de tu teoría. Por otra parte, muchas de las críticas que recibes son inútiles y simplemente reflejan la opinión de que todo lo nuevo es malo. En una situación tan delicada es crucial andarse con pies de plomo y tener cuidado de apreciar la diferencia entre comentarios pertinentes e idiotas.

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  Courage, Science, Views

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