Andrew Thomas Quotes & Sayings

Three is a natural result for the number of dimensions. It is natural because it is a number close to one. The closer to one, the better, the more in line with our expectations. — Andrew Thomas

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law. — Andrew Thomas

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good. — Andrew Thomas

We can see that the Kolmogorov complexity describes the compressibility of the pattern: — Andrew Thomas

when does an electron know when to jump, and how does it decide where to jump? Reasonably enough, Rutherford wanted to know what underlying process controlled the quantum jumping: "Bohr's answer was remarkable. Bohr suggested that the whole process was fundamentally random, and could only be considered by statistical methods: every change in the state of an atom should be regarded as an individual process, incapable of more detailed description. We are here so far removed from a causal description that an atom may in general even be said to possess a free choice between various possible transitions. — Andrew Thomas

I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts. — Andrew Thomas

Aristotle was no experimenter, and he relied too much on his preconceptions. Famously, Aristotle once proclaimed that women have fewer teeth than men. Because no one thought to check this proclamation of Aristotle, for a thousand years everyone believed that women have fewer teeth (women and men, of course, actually have the same number of teeth). — Andrew Thomas

Michael Faraday demonstrated that if you push a magnet through a coil of wire, an electric current flows. Conversely, if you pass an electric current through a wire it can deflect a nearby magnetic compass. From this, Faraday deduced that electric currents create magnetic fields, and moving magnetic fields create electric currents. Thus was electromagnetism discovered, unifying electricity and magnetism. — Andrew Thomas

Woodrow Wilson later wrote: "The Constitution of the United States has been made under the dominion of the Newtonian theory. — Andrew Thomas

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks. — Andrew Thomas

That's the whole point of ... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case. — Andrew Thomas

A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear. — Andrew Thomas

The process of unification could be equated to a tree, with each theory being a leaf on the end of a twig. — Andrew Thomas

Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license. — Andrew Thomas

everything travels through spacetime at the speed of light. — Andrew Thomas

So, far from being a matter of personal brain physiology, we discover that the reason we cannot remember the future is purely due to the physics of the external universe: we cannot remember the future because we have received no information from the future. — Andrew Thomas

Graft at your craft! — Andrew Thomas

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect. — Andrew Thomas

However, Galileo got into trouble when he turned his telescope toward a wider horizon. The discovery of the four moons orbiting Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - suggested that the Earth was not the centre of the universe about which all celestial bodies orbited. By challenging the geocentric model of the Solar System, Galileo found himself accused of heresy and was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life. — Andrew Thomas