"Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence."

-- Robert Kirshner

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“What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than oneâ€™s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?”
“Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.”

Source : "Keeping Politics out of the Court". The New York Times, December 09, 1984.
“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”
“Goals convert vision into ENERGY.”
“The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.”
“Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.”
“The way to bless God is to bless someone He loves. Bless someone in need.”
“Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!”

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