God Throws Dice, What Can I Say?

I Don't. We've Had Three Technological Revolutions That Have Changed The Course Of Human History, All Driven By Physics. In The First, The Industrial Revolution, Physicists Developed Newtonian Mechanics And Thermodynamics, Which Gave Us The Steam Engine And Machine Power. The Second Technological Revolution Was The Electricity Revolution. That Gave Us Radio, Television, And Telecommunications. Then, Physicists Developed The Laser And The Transistor.

Aging Is Basically The Build-up Of Error: Error At The Genetic Level, Error At The Cellular Level. Cells Normally Repair Themselves; That's Why You Heal When You Get A Cut. But Even The Mechanism Of Repair Eventually Falls Apart.

Sometimes The Public Says, 'what's In It For Numero Uno? Am I Going To Get Better Television Reception? Am I Going To Get Better Internet Reception?' Well, In Some Sense, Yeah. ... All The Wonders Of Quantum Physics Were Learned Basically From Looking At Atom-smasher Technology. ... But Let Me Let You In On A Secret: We Physicists Are Not Driven To Do This Because Of Better Color Television. ... That's A Spin-off. We Do This Because We Want To Understand Our Role And Our Place In The Universe.

Cesium, Iodine From The Chernobyl Reactor Accident Went Around The World Many Times And Everyone On The Earth Has A Piece Of Chernobyl In Their Bodies, But It's Very Tiny - Too Small To Cause Much Damage.

A Hundred Years Ago, Auguste Compte, ... A Great Philosopher, Said That Humans Will Never Be Able To Visit The Stars, That We Will Never Know What Stars Are Made Out Of, That That's The One Thing That Science Will Never Ever Understand, Because They're So Far Away. And Then, Just A Few Years Later, Scientists Took Starlight, Ran It Through A Prism, Looked At The Rainbow Coming From The Starlight, And Said: "hydrogen!" Just A Few Years After This Very Rational, Very Reasonable, Very Scientific Prediction Was Made, That We'll Never Know What Stars Are Made Of.