"To be a scientist you have to be willing to live with uncertainty for a long time. Research scientists begin with a question and they take a decade or two to find an answer. Then the answer they get may not even answer the question they thought it would. You have to have a supple enough mind to be open to the possibility that the answer sometimes precedes the question itself."

-- Hanya Yanagihara

#Long Quotes #Mind Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.”
“One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.”
“Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form ...”
“Weâ€™re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”
“So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.”
“Chaos isn't good for your health.”
“Michael Winterâ€™s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his lifeâ€¦ harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldnâ€™t miss for the world.”
“Fills the heart with its unforgettable characters and small-town charm. A feel-good read as welcome as a favorite friend!”

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