"It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer."

-- Anna Godbersen

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“When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism - the results can sometimes strike sensible people as revolting and inhuman. People can be reduced to simple repositories of positive or negative sensory states, and their humanity is lost sight of entirely.”
“Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.”
“There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.”
“We are friends for life. When weâ€™re together the years fall away. Isnâ€™t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far youâ€™ve come?”
“Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.”
“On Iâ€™ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot â€“ I, so big and by no one needed?”
“The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.”

Source : Obituary at CalTech, September 7, 2005.
“The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.”

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