"My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work."

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Peter Higgs

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“It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone.”
“If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.”

Source : William Penn (1849). “A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...”, p.4
“My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'”
“Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.”
“I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.”
“The highest distinction is service to others.”
“I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.”
“I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.”

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