"I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece."

-- Robert Nozick

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“I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.”
“Gotta keep moving; can't stop; stagnation kills.”
“Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.”

Source : "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.
“It's uncomfortable for me, but at least they're bouquets. They're not bricks or tomatoes yet, although it's gonna feel nice to get that big, rotten tomato right in the face, just get it out of the way.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”

Source : Selected Writings: "Poetry and Literature", 1941.
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
“Words are memes that can be pronounced.”
“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.”

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