"[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd."

-- Richard P. Feynman

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“In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.”
“I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.”

Source : Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“Iâ€™m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but Iâ€™d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan â€œa genius.â€ My science teacher told me that television was â€œthe new opiate of the massesâ€ and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.”
“Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.”

Source : Eric Burns (1995). “The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader”
“World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.”
“I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people.”
“In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.”

Source : "Quantum Measurements and Chaos". Book by E. R. Pike and S. Sarkar, eds., pp. 183-193, 1987.
“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”

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