"We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules."

-- Gerald Edelman

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Molecules Quotes

“I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. Iâ€™ll work with Martians. If â€” and the if is critical â€” they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.”
“I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.”

Source : Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (1987). “Odilon Redon: pastels”, George Braziller
“I'd like to retain Trish Stratus's services.”
“You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.”
“Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.”
“Discipline is not a nasty word.”
“What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.”
“If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.”

Source : "Fundamental laws - Astronomical reach". Interview with Catherine Zandonella, research.princeton.edu. January 31, 2014.

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