There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
~Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988)
Thanks to Bill Goffe.
There are hundreds of billions of water molecules in a pond. We used to call that astronomical numbers. Now we should call them wet numbers.
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that's funny in a sad way....
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you're trying too hard. do you really have to have the last word?
Feynman was a great one for quotes. He once said that "Physics is to Mathematics as masterbation is to sex." I still haven't figured that one out.
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