"No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery, the idea of understanding. I think it's difficult to make clear to the non-physicist the beauty of how it fits together, of how you can build a world picture, and the beauty that the laws of physics are immutable."

-- Hans Bethe

#Thinking Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Law Quotes

“I dont think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because were pretty much two different kinds of actors. Hes done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like Uncle Buck and Home Alone and Home Alone 2. And Ive done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.”
“One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which oneâ€™s god module is overactive at the time.”
“If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.”

Source : George Pelecanos (2010). “The Way Home”, p.282, Hachette UK
“Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."”
“While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.”
“Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.”

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