"Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky."

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Source : " Father of 'the God particle' Peter Higgs says fame is a bit of a nuisance" by Peter Higgs, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2014.

Peter Higgs

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“The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.”
“We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some new historical order will emerge. We cannot be sure what that order will be. Concretely, we may symbolize the first bifurcation as the effect of the world revolution of 1968 which continued up to and including the so-called collapse of the communisms in 1989, the social bifurcation.”
“Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.”
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
“Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.”

Source : "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.
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“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.”

Source : Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.415, Random House
“My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.”

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