"If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers."

Source : "Physics, in What is Science?: Twelve Eminent Scientists and Philosophers Explain Their Various Fields to the Layman". Book by James Roy Newman, published by Simon and Schuster, p. 102, 1955.

Edward Condon

#Running Quotes #Effort Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.”

Source : "How Does History Change The Meaning Of Words?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 13, 2013.
“That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.”
“Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.”

Source : "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.
“When the baby is older take the diapers off, my girl is gonna do the Slop.”

Source : Song: The Slop
“My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.”

Source : "Kathryn Minshew: Helping Women Find Their Muse". Interview with Nusha Balyan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.
“The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.”
“Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.”
“The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be as honest and vulnerable as possible, as one would in a diary. As a child I used to write my diaries backwards in cursive. No one else could understand them. I think it trained me to be bold and admit feelings that I might feel otherwise scared to write down.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com

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