"The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment."

--

Theodor Adorno

#Past Quotes #Expression Quotes #Torment Quotes

“Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow when you grow up... profound curiosity happens when children are young. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race... Once you are sophisticated, you know too much- far too much. Pauli once said to me, "I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.".”
“Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?”
“It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?”
“Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.”
“If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.”
“As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.”
“There will be increasing temptation to watch movies where you want to when you want to, and so I'm very focused on how we innovate Illumination Entertainment to keep the in-theater experience vibrant and urgent. In part I think it's what movies you're choosing to make and why those are films we feel are best enjoyed surrounded by a group of people. I also think it's continuing to look at things technologically.”
“Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.”

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