32. Why do people become scientists?

32. Why do people become scientists?

I thought that this would be an easy post to write. Just scour through some scientists’ autobiographies (I have around a hundred on my shelves), pick out some quotes, and the post would write itself. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Because scientists love talking...
9. Einstein’s toolkit

9. Einstein’s toolkit

The trouble with you, Mr. Einstein, is that you don’t know how to count.  Einstein’s childhood violin teacher The calculations that Einstein performed to draw his conclusions from the simple initial “what if?” assumption needed a new sort of mathematics. Just as he...