Lubos Motl famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck.
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Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke ***** and this is my modest attempt to help them.
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According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech population. The demonstrations against the base are usually organized by communists, Islamists, and "peaceful feminists" (which is fortunately not a numerous group).
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Whether you like it or not, alcohol helps to create emotional links between humans, too.
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I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e.g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world. ;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time.
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Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.
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Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.
-- Lubos Motl
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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time
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As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.
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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
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I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
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Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.
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