I Remember That One Time I Went Insane Bcs I Couldn't Draw Michael Distortion In A Way That Felt 'true'

i remember that one time i went insane bcs I couldn't draw michael distortion in a way that felt 'true' to him so i just filled my notebooks with increasingly less humanoid art of michael distortion, culminating in a nightmare where he was staring at me and i didn't know what i was staring at, after which i decided to not mess with the spiral any further

edit: just realized im the artist equivalent of the guy who walked out of the spiral domain bcs he was late for dinner

I believe I may be one of very few tumblr users for whom their feed is about 1/3 physics

I love when engineers write papers and get to make fun of physicists a bit. Don't get me wrong, I love physicists, some of my closest friends are physicists, but some of y'all need to log off and touch some actual materials before you get too far into spherical cow territory.

My favorite Schrödinger quote: “I don’t like it and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it” (speaking about quantum mechanics, the field for which he created the unofficial poster child)

Actual quotes from my undergrad quantum mechanics professor (2019):

"Any one of you, if pressed hard enough, could use a rock to kill a gazelle"

"I haven't killed anyone since I was in my 20's!"

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three wrongs do. So, if someone wrongs you, get back at them double."

(After a student asked a really good question) "I'm doing this because it's his fucking fault."

"Wouldn't it be great if Bohr, Schrödinger, etc… were struck by lightning before arriving at this conclusion?"

"The key to being a successful physicist is to be an arrogant shit."

(When asked why he assigned so many homework problems) "One reason is to keep people awake at night. The other reason is that I'm insane."

"No no. Cross that out. Write dumbass next to it."

"Vigor, not rigor, as my PhD advisor used to say."

"I can either be A. depressed or B. infinitely amused."

"The Finite Square Well: The chances of an algebra mistake are greater than 1. -Dirac"

"I tend to not get excited about important things like the end of the world, but this pisses me off."

(After grading our first exam) "I don't care if you don't go into fucking physics, but REALLY PEOPLE? … Even people who don't give a rat's ass can be productive in society … but REALLY??"

"In classical mechanics, you can ignore the product rule. Write that down."

"It's always darkest before the dawn, unless it gets darker."

"I'll give you ten dollars if you don't ask me that question again."

"If you mean it then you're a nerd nerd. If you're being ironic, then there's still hope for you."

"60% of books use E to be + and 60% of books use E to be -, and you can never tell which it is."

"I think I knew a guy named Jack Shit in New Jersey."

"Life is more complicated than physics, that's for sure. That's what makes it fun."

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When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.