"Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics."

-- David Goodstein

#Science Quotes #Hands Quotes #Carrying On Quotes

“I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.”
“One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.”
“Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.”
“I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.”
“When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.”
“The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.”

Source : Richard McKenna (2010). “The Sand Pebbles”, p.13, RosettaBooks
“Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.”
“As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it gets magnetically drawn to you. It's a symbiosis whether you like it or not.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

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