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“That initially fills us with horror because that seems paltry, that seems like it cannot be enough because we're used to the idea of objective values. But if we go all the way through that nihilism…” (Lee Braver)

“recently measured velocity of light. Okay? Before this moment, no one in physics had the slightest suspicion that light had anything to do with electromagnetic fields or anything like that. The…” (David Albert)

“Those represent intersections. Those are where different roads meet. The origin is A, you want to get to B, okay? Let's have a very simple model of travel times in this network. Let's just say that…” (Tim Roughgarden)

“This is the phrase people use. Most of the points in high dimensional hypercube are in the corners, and very few of them are near the center. The points near the center are the ones that are inside…” (Joel David Hamkins)

“people in literary modernism, especially people like people in the Bloomsbury circle, like Virginia Woolf, who were very aware of what was going on in physics and who were clearly trying to reflect…” (David Albert)

“but maybe it's not a vicious circle, maybe it's a virtuous circle 'cause you've gotta start with what's familiar to you and what you "know," and then you try to deepen it and you try to clarify it.…” (Richard Polt)

“Uh, humans can only see, uh, a range of about 380 to 720 nanometers. That is the visible spectrum. And if it's, uh, lower than 380 nanometers or higher than 720, th-Uh, ultraviolet or infrared, it's…” (Lee Braver)

“EDVAC and the ENIAC to sort of realize general purpose computers. Again, very, very difficult to classify. You know, for our purposes today, Von Neumann has a number of amazing results in pure…” (Tim Roughgarden)

“There is a way that the wave function of a given system evolves when the system is not undergoing a measurement or an observation. That's given by von Neumann's Rule One, which refers to this…” (David Albert)

“which the wave function is supposed to evolve. And then there is this other rule, von Neumann's Rule Two, which applies when the wave function... When the particle that the wave function describes is…” (David Albert)

“and a guy gets a stomachache across town, okay? And in that case, we're not thinking of this role of dominoes. But somehow, my sticking this pin into the voodoo doll directly and in an unmediated way…” (David Albert)