User:AWeishaupt

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$e^{j\omega C}\,\!$ This user is an electronic engineer.

$\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{1 \over n^{2}}$ This user is an advanced mathematician.

This user is a skeptic.

atheosThis user is an atheist.

This user follows a spiritual worldview we might term Carl Saganism.

This user believes in the separation of church and state.

This user imagines Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too.

respect This user respects others' religions and realises not all people wish to follow the same path.

This user believes "There is grandeur in this view of life..."

This user is a bibliophile.

$\scriptstyle {\frac {\partial ^{2}\Psi }{\partial t^{2}}}=\nabla ^{2}\Psi$This user is interested in mathematical physics.

This user enjoys electronics or is an electronics hobbyist.

This user has a keen interest in learning about Chemistry.

This user supports the use of nuclear power.

This user understands biological evolution.

This user knows how to travel 1 mile due south, due east, then due north and end up where they started.†

This user thinks polar coordinates are pretty.

asm This user can program in assembly language.

C This user can program in C.

Java This user can program in Java.

bash This user is a bash scripter.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

This user is against DRM.

This user enjoys photography.

Quotes

• "How is anyone supposed to know that this isn't just a bunch of crap?" - Richard Feynman

• "Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and, I might add, a character-building experience.

To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot - the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan

• "We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in cargo cult science." - Richard Feynman

• "Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close." - Carl Sagan

• "There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science.

The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as we are free to ask what we must, free to say what we think, free to think what we will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress." - Robert Oppenheimer