"Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]â€”it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!"

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Source : Letter to Albert Einstein, November 24, 1919.

Paul Ehrenfest

#Hate Quotes #Upset Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?”
“when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads.”
“If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.”
“My whole life, I've been telling jokes.”
“I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.”
“[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he taught classes at the Harvard Business School. And he was a member of the Harvard Faculty Club, which I am, too, because what I did is... I have the same name as my father, only Jr.”
“Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.”
“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.”

Source : "Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.

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