"[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians"

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Freeman Dyson

#Mathematician Quotes

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 19, 2009
“If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.”
“I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns”
“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”
“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”
“I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.”
“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.”
“Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.”

Source : Walter Wangerin (1993). “Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr”, Harpercollins

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