"There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics."

-- Paul Lockhart

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“The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.”
“Living in the present is the way to go. I know firsthand about getting caught up in the hurts of the past and the anxieties of the future and thinking that we are somehow making ourselves feel better by doing so. We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.”
“Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will be "Yes". But if your questions are less superficial, for example whether some well-known scientist was a good scientist. Then, they had insisted that only empirical criteria matter and that they actually did not believe in the reality of sub-atomic entities. Ask "If that turned out to be true, would you still say they were good scientists?" The answer would reveal something about how they themselves understood what it is to be a scientist.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.”

Source : Source: fierth.com
“I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.”
“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”

Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.”

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