"A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money."

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Source : Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.162, Basic Books

Robert B. Laughlin

#Asking Quotes #Truth Is Quotes #Obsessed Quotes

“I just want to help people do better research.”

Source : "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology" by Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.
“We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.”
“Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.”
“I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.”
“There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.”
“Sports are a microcosm of society.”
“It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.18
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. [Misattributed]”

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