"Einsteinâ€™s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed peopleâ€™s thinking about space-time. Weâ€™re again in the middle of something like that. When the dust settles, timeâ€”whatever it may beâ€”could turn out to be even stranger and more illusory than even Einstein could imagine."

-- Carlo Rovelli

#Science Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dust Quotes

“I want to be up front racing.”
“Life is too short to learn German”
“News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all”

Source : Gay Talese (2013). “The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World”, p.2, Random House
“Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”
“Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.”
“Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”

Source : "Fictional character: Henry Frankenstein". "Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. November 21, 1931.
“I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 187, 1895.
“I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!”

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