Sunday, November 18, 2007

Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynman

I have a new favourite quote. It's from Richard Feynman, the maverick physicist.

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 [US] national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
I have been going out a lot recently, so this is just a filler for the blog while I am recovering from fatigue. :)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, I remember that one =)

changyang1230 said...

You seem to know and remember everything. :P

nh said...

Interesting. ;)