Науката и Магията според Тери Пратчет

 

Избрани цитати на един от най-добрите фентъзи писатели и природни талатни – Тери Пратчет.

 

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

 

Дефиниция на наука:

SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains

what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it is wrong. There is a lot  more Science than you think.

-- From A Scientific Encyclopedia for the Enquiring Young Nome

by Angalo de Haberdasheri

(Terry Pratchett, Wings)

 

Мерна единица за Магия:

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls.

-- (Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic)

 

Кварковия произход на магията:

It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made up of /resons/ (Lit.: "Thing-ies") or reality ragments. Currently research indicates that each reson is itself made up of a combination of at least five "flavours", known as "up", "down", "sideways", "sex appeal" and "peppermint".

-- (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)

Можем да добавим и шести flavour – topless ;-)

 

Какво е да си физик?

"Are you a physicist?"

"Me? I don"t know anything about science!"

"Marvellous! Ideal qualification!"

-- (Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead)

 

И няколко думи за образованието, за съжаление и нашето в момента:

“And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.”

 

За всички колеги и приятели – наздраве ;-)

 

 

 

 

 

Тук имало колега! Браво, браво, сродна научна душа - бях се отчаяла, че аз съм само от природните науки тук. Наздраве за какво?
Да не сте открили някоя елементарна частица, колега? Или нова звезда?

Тази есен -в CERN, може и да ни огрее ;-)

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