"Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too."

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Source : "The Lightness of Being - Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces". Book by Frank Wilczek, 2008.

Frank Wilczek

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“I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.”
“I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.”
“It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.”

Source : Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1820). “The Life and Religious Experience of the Celebrated Lady Guion”, p.63
“Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.”
“I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.”
“Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.”
“Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.”
“Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.”

Source : Michael J. Gelb (1996). “Lessons from the Art of Juggling: How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning, and Life”, Three Rivers Press

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