"Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text."

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Source : Abraham Pais (2014). “A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World”, p.15, Princeton University Press

Abraham Pais

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.”
“I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.”
“Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.”
“It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.”

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“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”
“Invention breeds invention.”
“I still pinch myself, I'm touring with Cormega you know what I'm saying, a few years ago I'd be sitting in my room doing whatever and listening to Cormega's albums on repeat and knowing all the words.”

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“I'd like the campaigning to be about all the things they're not going to do. Just tell me what you're not going do! Don't tell me what you're going to do. Just say "I'd really like to do solar energy but I'm not going to be able to. I really want to dig holes everywhere in the country but I really won't be able to do it because people seem to think that maybe my water will be screwed up."”

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