"The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time."

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Source : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1998). “The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes”, p.1, Oxford University Press

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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“That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend the primary fantasy in the defiance, and avoid the real gamble or real adventure of taking a chance on something new. They are afraid that if they really cry out, if they really ask, if they really scream for help, that it won't come, and they'll be in the same panicky frightened state they were in when they were little.”
“Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.”
“I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.”
“Liberty is about our rights to question everything.”
“I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or accidental (and this includes suffering and grief -- even that of others), and that sometimes one catches a glimpse of the link between these happenings. I believe -- even when I am myself blind and deaf, or even indifferent -- in the existence of a mystery ...”
“If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.”
“This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.”
“As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.”

Source : "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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