"The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science."

-- Nelly Ben Hayoun

#Assuming Quotes #Scientist Quotes #Surreal Quotes

“I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.”

Source : Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.16, Da Capo Press
“Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.”
“Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.”
“It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.”
“When we play on big stages, we tend to beef off the dance side of things and keep up the tempo.”
“In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.”

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