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“I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'”
Source : "Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013. 
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“Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.”
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“One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.”
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“Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.”
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“Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.”
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“Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.”
Source : "The Character of a Happy Life". Poem by Henry Wotton, 1614.
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“Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.”
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“Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.”
