"A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical."

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Paul Dirac

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“When I know who is speaking, I see that there is a commitment. I need to know there is some commitment. I need to find an author. "I" can also be polyphonic, fictional, inhabited by a multitude of characters, be right or wrong or at fault or corrupted. But that's more "the self" than "me, me, me." It's problematic. There are times to say "we."”
“It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.”
“It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.”

Source : Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press
“Someday, weâ€™ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe Iâ€™ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, thatâ€™s when Iâ€™ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you canâ€™t hook your boat to mine, because Iâ€™m liable to sink us both.”
“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.”
“Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his mobile telling him his friend Arthur Miller has died. Or you can come back from a job on the Isle of Man to be told by your agent you're going straight out to South Africa on another shoot. There's not even any time to wash your pants.”
“Now I've wrestled alotta countries!”

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