"Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards."

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Fritz Zwicky

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“To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.”
“On Shabbat something happens to the world - the world becomes infinite again.”
“It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.”
“If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.”
“We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.”
“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”
“I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.”

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