"There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics."

-- Gregory Benford

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“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”

Source : "The agony and the ecstasy" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.
“I do think that the Trump presidency, even for the resistance, there is pre-Charlottesville and a post-Charlottesville moment, and Donald Trump's response to Charlottesville was a kind of extraordinarily shameful moment, I think, actually for the country.”
“Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.”
“No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!”
“One can do something if one can see and understand it...”
“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”
“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.”
“The purest form of prayer we can engage in is to feel peace: the kind of peace that comes when we surrender totally to what is, as isâ€”in the knowledge and comfort that Spirit has it all handled and that it will all work out for the best if we just get ourselves out of the way.”

Source : Colin Tipping (2010). “Radical Forgiveness: A Revolutionary Five-Stage Process to Heal Relationships, Let Go of Anger and Blame, Find Peace in Any Situation”, p.170, ReadHowYouWant.com

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