I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired to be interested in things that might be a little dangerous.
Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science.
My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in.
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
