"Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs."

-- Paul Davies

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“Nerves are good. They keep you alive.”
“...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.”
“[Malebranche] teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vÃ©ritÃ© , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.”
“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.30, Random House
“I always wished my dad was there to intimidate my boyfriends or something. It's supposed to be your dad giving your guys friends the stink-eye for sneaking beer through your house, not your mom.”
“It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.139
“I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.”
“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.”

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