"Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations."

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Source : "The Dark River". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2007.

John Twelve Hawks

#Sound Quotes #Oracles Quotes #These Days Quotes

“Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.”

Source : SPIN interview, thechilisource.com. February 1990.
“Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.”

Source : "8 Bloggers to Follow for Startup Inspiration and Advice". www.businessinsider.com. June 28, 2013.
“Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them that although they must submit to capture, search, and confinement, they will not otherwise be harmed and will be set free at the conclusion of hostilities. If we capture wild animals, however, we cannot explain that we are not threatening their lives. A wild animal cannot distinguish an attempt to overpower and confine from an attempt to kill; the one causes as much terror as the other.”
“My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera”
“Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.”
“Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.”
“Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.”
“I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.”

Source : "Just a bellow - or a roar of public rage?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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