{"id":735,"date":"2011-06-15T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/?p=735"},"modified":"2020-03-20T09:35:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T09:35:20","slug":"science-music-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/2011\/06\/15\/science-music-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Science &amp; Music Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMusic has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow\u201d<strong> A. Einstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00abit appears probable that the progenitors of man, either the males or females or both sexes, before acquiring the power of expressing their mutual love in articulate language, endeavoured to charm each other with musical notes and rhythm\u00bb<strong> C. Darwin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00abWhen things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics\u00bb<strong> V.F. Weisskopf<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u00abHow I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics\u00bb(a &pi;-eme)  <strong>J. Jeans<\/strong> (author of Science &amp; Music, Dover, 1968)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.\u201d<strong> A. Einstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00abBut the beauty of Einstein&#8217;s equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who&#8217;s experienced it as the beauty of music. We&#8217;ve learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.\u00bb<strong> E. Witten<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00abMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.\u00bb<strong>  G. Leibniz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00abYou could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.\u00bb<strong> B. Russell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00abIf I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.\u00bb<strong> A. Einstein<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMusic has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow\u201d A. Einstein \u00abit appears probable that the progenitors of man, either the males or females or <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/2011\/06\/15\/science-music-quotes\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Sigue leyendo &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}