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Numbers Representing Scientific Quantities

  • Avogadro constant: NA = 6.0221417930... ×1023 mol−1
  • Coulomb's constant: k e = 8.987551787368...
  • Electronvolt: eV = 1.60217648740... ×10–19 J
  • Electron relative atomic mass: Ar(e) = 0.0005485799094323...
  • Fine structure constant: α = 0.007297352537650...
  • Gravitational constant: G = 6.67384...
  • Molar mass constant: Mu = 0.001 kg/mol
  • Planck constant: h = 6.6260689633... ×10–34 Js
  • Rydberg constant: R = 10973731.56852773... m−1
  • Speed of light in vacuum: c = 299792458 m/s
  • Stefan-Boltzmann constant: σ = 5.670400×10−8 W • m−2 • K−4

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    The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)

    Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.
    Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    The Walrus and the Carpenter
    Were walking close at hand:
    They wept like anything to see
    Such quantities of sand:
    “If this were only cleared away,”
    They said, “it would be grand!”
    “If seven maids with seven mops
    Swept it for half a year,
    Do you suppose,” the Walrus said,
    “That they could get it clear?”
    “I doubt it,” said the Carpenter,
    And shed a bitter tear.
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)