Links - Takács Antal
Nuclear Energetics, Thermalhydraulics
"Dear Colleagues, please always remember: just useless things can be presented in a purely analytical way." (Prof Tamás Lajos, hydrodynamics)
Engineering
"In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from engineering handbooks) are to be treated as variables." (law for naive engineers)
Applied Mathematics
"God had created integers. All the rest was created by man." (Leopold Kronecker)
Physics
"Since the measuring device has been constructed by the observer...we have to remember that what we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning." (W. Heisenberg)
E-books, dictionaries
"Mathematics is just like a mad taylor: it makes dresses with all types of shapes and sizes all the time. Others are slowly recognizing that some of the dresses fit excellently a portion of the world. It is still working but how much things are still naked!" (Stanislaw Lem)
Interdisciplinarity, Sleep Research
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (A. Einstein)
"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe." (Heraclitus, Fragment 90)
Philosophy, religion
"You are similar to what your brain understands, not to me!" (World Spirit to Faust)
Miscellany (literature, music, arts,...)
"Brain does not apply the language of mathematics." (John von Neumann)
In Budapest Zoo, 16.8.1972