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God rewards fool

Martin Hellman, co-inventor (well, at least in the U.S., independently from the U.K. team in GCHQ) of public key cryptography, cited by the book Code Book , "... only fools keeps trying. You have idea number 1, you get excited, and it flops. Then you have idea number 2, you get excited, and it flops. Then you have idea number 99, you get excited, and it flops. Only a fool would be excited by the 100th idea, but it might take 100 ideas before one really pays off. Unless you're foolish enough to be continually excited, you won't have the motivation, you won't have the energy to carry it through. God rewards fools" We have been little, but not completely fool for a while in the lab. And we got a little reward. We might continue to be.
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"Philosophies" of physics

Richard Feynman, in Character of Physical Law , (p. 168) "What are these philosophies? They are really tricky ways to compute consequences quickly. A philosophy, which is sometimes called an understanding of the law, is simply a way that a person holds the law in his mind in order to guess quickly at consequences." Reminds me of Dr. Shepard quoting his professor, "Never start the calculation until you know the answers." That's the understanding of laws and the physical picture. Not any less important in experimental physics. One needs to have very good physical pictures, especially at micro-scales, to guess "what is going on down there." Good physical picture helps designing, de-bugging, getting results much faster, while a bad one throws one into confusion and frustration.
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History repeats no physics

Richard Feynman, in The Character of Physical Law , (pp. 163 - 164) "I am sure that history history does not repeats itself in physics, as you can tell from looking at the examples I have given. The reason is this. Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations' - are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away. There must be another way next way next time. Each time we get into this log-jam of too much trouble, too many problems, it is because the methods that we are using are just like the ones we have used before. The next scheme, the now discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way. So, history does not help us much."
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美國的祥林嫂

一個師兄第4年就準備口試畢業了。上下幾屆的人幾天來就見人不斷地說：「I can't believe it! Can you believe GT is defending!?」充滿了哀怨的氣氛。
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Grow. Gain strength. Fight with the giant.
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雞蛋

寶貝啊，不讓妳吃太多雞蛋就是為妳好啊！雖然我希望的是我比妳晚死，但是妳可別早我太多。早一點點就好。 http://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/WhatsNewinFood/ucm222684.htm
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Jimmy Fallon Get two beers and jump

You got to get two beers and jump. The most kick-ass way of quitting a job. http://abcnews.go.com/US/ jetblue-flight-attendant- steven-slater-arrested-flight- jfk/story?id=11361298
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