"The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself."

-- Jonathan Franzen

#Pain Quotes #News Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.”
“The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.”
“Opportunities look a lot like work.”
“For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.”
“What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature there has to ultimately be some rule by which nature operates. But the issue is does that rule have to correspond to something like a mathematical equation, something that we have sort of created in our human mathematics? And what I realized is that now with our understanding of computation and computer programs and so on, there is actually a much bigger universe of possible rules to describe the natural world than just the mathematical equation kinds of things.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.”

Source : "Q&A with Lene Hau". Interview with Harvey Blume, archive.boston.com. March 17, 2007.
“The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.”
“When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.”

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