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=== 2009 === {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2187484736 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content="[The] likelihood of two geniuses getting together before my eyes here at Cavendish seemed so small that I did not even consider it." -[[Erwin Chargaff|E.C.]] |timestamp=3:21 AM 路 Jun 16, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2187637991 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=The earlier quote of [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff]] on [[Jim Watson|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick|Crick]] is not yet on a regular web page? May I back out that it is of minor importance? |timestamp=3:34 AM 路 Jun 16, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704496800 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?" |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3703002903 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass? |timestamp=2:33 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704214643 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly |timestamp=3:39 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704373990 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by Feynman as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so. |timestamp=3:49 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3704435018 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream |timestamp=3:53 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} |timestamp=3:56 AM 路 Sep 2, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5235554811 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=[[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff's]] "Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature": The greatest scientific autobiography you will never read. |timestamp=5:25 PM 路 Oct 28, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5427488290 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Before the double helix, [[Erwin Chargaff]] put forward that the structure of DNA should be.......anyone?......a mobius band(?!). |timestamp=7:01 PM 路 Nov 4, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6655546222 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content="It has been found experimentally...." begins the sentence in theorists Watson & Crick's note sticking it to Chargaff. Why let that through? |timestamp=7:34 AM 路 Dec 14, 2009 }}
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