"Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions."

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Source : "Charles H. Townes: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

Charles Hard Townes

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“I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.”
“The more you look into pigs the more you realize quite how everywhere they are. People come in contact with parts of pigs probably between 20 and 50 times a day. And that's before you even eat your dinner. And yet we just have a long string of negative words about them.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.”
“Comedy is, of course, closely associated with eggs.”
“A veterinarian who naively gave PETA some of the animals, thinking they would find them homes, and examined the dead bodies of others, testified that they were 'healthy' and 'adoptable.'”
“You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart.”
“My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.”

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“It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.”

Source : Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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