"All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear."

-- Brian Greene

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“Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.”
“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.”
“It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed [..]....”

Source : Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.99, Basic Books
“We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.”

Source : "Passion and pessimism" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2003.
“Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.”
“The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.”
“I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.”
“Don't promise twice what you can do at once.”

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