"Theres a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. Its worth everything."

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Source : "Q&A with Lene Hau". Interview with Harvey Blume, archive.boston.com. March 17, 2007.

Lene

#Night Quotes #Light Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.”
“I will be a President for all the people, whether they voted for me or not, whether they are young or old and particularly for the Irish abroad. I'm looking forward to it and I think it will be exciting and wonderful.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.”

Source : James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”
“I've got to think that that was unethical," Joshua said. "Josh, faking demonic possession is like a mustard seed." "How is it like a mustard seed?" "You don't know, do you? Doesn't seem at all like a mustard seed, does it? Now you see how we all feel when you liken things unto a mustard seed? Huh?”
“There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.”
“When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.”
“History has a Nemesis for every sin.”

Source : Theodor Mommsen (1864). “The History of Rome”, p.252
“I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.”

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