Would you rather be an engineer or a physicist? ✍️

Raman's interest in the scattering of light began during a voyage from England to India in 1921. He was intrigued by the blue color of the Mediterranean Sea and conducted experiments on board the ship using simple instruments.

Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematical genius, discovered nearly 4,000 theorems and equations, unique and groundbreaking. Some of his results were so advanced that they were not proven until decades after his death.

J. Robert Oppenheimer on a Virgin Island beach, dated unknown.

Is mathematics really the language of the universe? ✍️ Math is nature’s way of keeping things in order. From the paths of planets to the shape of flowers, everything follows mathematical patterns. What’s wild is that equations often predict things — like black holes — before we

Gottfried Leibniz binary numeral system, 1697.

Nikola Tesla had an intense case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and he was fixated on the number three. He reportedly felt compelled to do things in threes or multiples thereof. For example, he often walked around a building three times before entering it.

Niels Bohr on Quantum theory 💭

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." - A. Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Three titans of Quantum Physics ✍️

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics. - Nikola Tesla

Who do you think is the Greatest Mathematician of all Time ? ✍️

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Dr. Carl Sagan

Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The Open Mind (1955) by J. Robert Oppenheimer ✍️

In the 7th century, negative numbers were used in calculations in India which was innovative because Europeans dismissed these numbers as absurd until the 17th century, when they gained widespread acceptance due to their practical use in accounting and bookkeeping.

Grigori Perelman - the mathematician who solved a century-old problem and walked away from fame and a million dollars. ✍️

Robert Oppenheimer as a kid.

World’s Toughest Math Exam ▲ The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is an annual mathematics competition that takes place in the United States and Canada on the first Saturday of December every year. Even though it takes place in the States, the competition is open

Are you a creationist or an evolutionist? ✍️

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. - A. Einstein speaking on his letter sent to president Roosevelt

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. - A. Einstein speaking on his letter sent to president Roosevelt

The New York Times cover on July 21, 1969.

Dirac and Heisenberg in Brussels, attending the 1933 Solvay Conference.

Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity that is number 1. If there were, 1 would be in a place of honor in some great museum of science, and past it would file a steady stream of mathematicians gazing at 1 in wonder and awe. - John B. Fraleigh, mentioned in

How Alexander Friedmann corrected Einstein's mistakes ✍️ Alexander Friedmann did a detailed analysis of Einstein's equations where he plugged in the 'universe' and didn’t make the same mistake Einstein made. Based on the result, he made two predictions about the Universe which

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan

What’s the scariest thing in the universe? ✍️

What is the second best invention of mankind after mathematics? ✍️

Can you identify the scientists on the wall photo? ✍️

Albert Einstein in his mid 20's ✍️

What shape do you think the universe is? ✍️

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. -- A. Einstein

Ludwig Boltzmann’s grave in Vienna bears his famous entropy formula, S = k log W, which relates the entropy of a system to the number of possible microscopic states. Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who made significant contributions to the fields of

Sir Isaac Newton on scientific curiosity 💭 I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the

Wigner’s Friend Paradox ✍️ Two observers can assign different realities to the same event in quantum mechanics, and both be internally consistent — hinting that “facts” may be observer-dependent.

Albert Einstein in response to not knowing the speed of sound. ✍️ "I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. - Democritus

Some facts about Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani ✍️ ∙ Gold medalist in Iranian National Mathematical Olympiad, Junior and Senior Category. ∙ Gold medalist in International Mathematical Olympiad, 1994, scoring 41 out to 42. ∙ Two Gold Medals in International

"A good teacher does not teach facts, he or she teaches enthusiasm, open-mindedness and values." - Gian-Carlo Rota

In 1697, Isaac Newton received Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit to solve the problem of the brachistochrone. Newton got the message on 29th Jan and solved the problem the same night before going to bed.

Some pages of Einstein's relativity notebooks written around 1912-13. Courtesy of Albert Einstein Archives.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. — A. Einstein

Photons Are Massless: Photons, the fundamental particles of light, have no mass but still carry energy and momentum, as shown in Einstein’s equation E = hf.

The Black-Scholes equation, used to price financial options since 1973, is secretly a sibling of the heat equation from physics. Economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes borrowed the math of heat diffusion—how temperature spreads—to model stock price volatility. It’s a rare

When the clock maker is a math geek ✍️

C₆₀ is a carbon molecule that adopts a truncated icosahedron structure—20 hexagons and 12 pentagons—exactly like a classic soccer ball. It’s composed of 60 carbon atoms, each bonded to three neighbors in a purely sp² network, forming a closed cage.

In his “last letter” to G. H. Hardy, dated 12 January 1920, Ramanujan gave 17 examples of what he called “mock theta functions.” He described them as “functions which…mock the theta functions” but offered no proofs, only series definitions and numerical evidence.

Wright brothers' patent for their flying machine granted four years after their first flight-- a U.S. Patent 821,393 for “new and useful improvement in Flying Machines.”, ca. 1908.

Up until the 17th century, it was widely believed that light traveled instantaneously. Danish astronomer Ole Rømer was the first to provide evidence that light had a finite speed. He did this by observing the motion of Jupiter's moon Io and calculating the speed of light to be