"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

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Source : Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

Steven Weinberg

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“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.”
“I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.”
“Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!”
“The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.”
“I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.”
“I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.”
“In a good play, everyone is in the right.”
“I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.”

Source : "Ince the manager keeps eyes open - all night". Interview With Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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