"Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2014). “Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society”, p.49, Oxford University Press
“"Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large forms. I feel that it is by and large a formally successful work, though I was constrained to write a piece at least fifty minutes long, and there are some dead spots in the music where I think I was simply marking time. However, I think when the dance is in motion, the formal problem is nonexistent.”
“What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.”
“People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.”
“One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Make the wise man within you your living ideal.”
“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1979). “The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics”, p.9, Beacon Press
“From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.”

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