"I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other."

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Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Lawrence Fagg

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“The months fall to shards at my feet.”
“I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.”
“I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.”
“What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?”

Source : "Artful Survivor". Interview with Deborah Salomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 1989.
“If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.”
“Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.”
“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.”
“There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussion, co-operation or movement toward an intellectual Renaissance. . . . They are not axioms, but until a man has proved them to himself and has accepted them, he is not fit for an intellectual discussion. These two principles are: a. that emotions are not tools of cognition; b. that no man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.”

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