"I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e.g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world.Â ;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time."

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Source : "Schellnhuber: West has exceeded quotas". motls.blogspot.ru. September 06, 2009.

Lubos Motl

#Media Quotes #Talking Quotes #Nuts Quotes

“Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I ever met anybody who liked his or her plan, but that was not my experience, that was not my experience. And it was not my experience as a mother of five, who occasionally has a bad back and the rest of that. I was considered a poor risk, even though I had some resources and thought I was quite strong for having five children. But the insurance company didn't see it that way.”
“Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.”
“Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in love with you, and I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful as the sight of you walking out a glass door in the early morning, still sleepy, in your underwear. Isn't it strange?”
“In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.”
“All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.136, Open Road Media
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day”
“For a few days I tweeted with a certain Pippa Middleton, and I really thought it was the Pippa Middleton. Then I discovered it was a fake. But the person who had thought up the concept was nice. It was kind of genius in its own way.”
“History is the third parent.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2013). “The Blind Man's Garden”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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