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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.


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EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis...
EDWARD DAHLBERG When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
EDWARD TELLER Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
EDWARD EDWARDS The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG To write is a humiliation.
EDWARD DAHLBERG