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“According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.” -Pieter Zeeman

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” -Jean-Luc Picard We like to think of nature as beautiful, elegant and infallible. Yet our notions of what's beautiful and elegant don't always line up with what reality gives us. Take the notion of symmetry, for example: the gravitational force is symmetric, always exerting equal magnitude forces on whatever two masses it occurs between.

“This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?” -Calvin, via Bill Watterson

"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended." -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

LA TRIBUNA La pregunta hoy debería ser del tipo: ¿Puede un fascista, suponiendo -que es mucho suponer- que lo hubiera sido Ricardo de la Cierva, haber inventado el autogiro? FEDERICO SORIGUER MÉDICO Y MIEMBRO DE LA ACADEMIA MALAGUEÑA DE CIENCIAS Domingo, 4 julio 2021, 09:35 Leemos que el Ministerio de Ciencia que dirige el astronauta Pedro Duque ha retirado el nombre de Cajal, Ricardo de la Cierva, Alejandro Malaspina, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Ra...