"Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?""

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Arthur Eddington

#Science Quotes #People Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight.”
“Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.”

Source : William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen
“What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun. My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random. The teenage daughter is my favourite, because I just had her go through this Goth phase. She's really kind of nerdy and she just became a concert violinist, which is pretty huge for the family. And she got into private school. But she started wearing black lipstick and she dyed her hair purple. It's pretty huge.”
“There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits”
“In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.”
“Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.”

Source : Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “Friendship with God: An uncommon dialogue”, p.45, Hachette UK
“Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.”

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.”

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