And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, January 4, 2025
These images from Earth Observatory show islands creating ‘von Karman vortices’ in the stratocumulus clouds.
One of my favorite observations is that someone once asked a famous British geneticist/biologist, J.B.S. Haldane, what a lifetime of studying biology had taught him about the preferences of God, should there be one. He answered, "He has an inordinate fondness for beetles". I would say "inordinate fondness for partial differential equations." Everywhere you look in nature it's much more common to find PDEs than straight lines and other conventional geometry.
Reminds me of clouds above Jupiter.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite observations is that someone once asked a famous British geneticist/biologist, J.B.S. Haldane, what a lifetime of studying biology had taught him about the preferences of God, should there be one. He answered, "He has an inordinate fondness for beetles". I would say "inordinate fondness for partial differential equations." Everywhere you look in nature it's much more common to find PDEs than straight lines and other conventional geometry.
ReplyDeleteAnd fractals.
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