"A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified."

-- Edwin Powell Hubble

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“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
“What can separate us from the love of God? An attempt to separate us by death simply releases us from the imprisonment of this world.”
“Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.”
“I think certainly everybody is aware of the potential for just the very inflamed political mood in America .”
“After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.”
“I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.”
“We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.”
“Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.”

Source : Diane Wakoski (1988). “Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987”, p.136, David R. Godine Publisher

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