"Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty."

-- Paul Dirac

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“Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.”
“No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.”
“If you produce yourself and you're working in a band, there's certain compromises everyone has to make, because it's a democracy and you have to cater to each other's feelings. When you have a producer, you have this objective ear that's not worrying about protecting anybody's feelings, so he's just making hard decisions based on what works and what doesn't, which was huge for us. I don't think we'd be able to make those decisions by ourselves.”
“The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.”
“One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.”

Source : Translated in "Germany Today: A Personal Report" by Walter Laqueur, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (p. 130), 1985.
“A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.”
“I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.”
“How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.”

Source : Louise Penny (2013). “How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.16, Macmillan

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