"I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant."

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Source : R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.290, Carolrhoda Lab

R. J. Anderson

#Unique Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.”
“Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.”
“Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.”

Source : "Hun Speech". Address in Bremerhaven to the German Expeditionary Force Prior to its Departure for China, germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. July 27, 1900.
“Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.”
“We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.”
“I think I become close to the people that I work with.”

Source : "Interview: ‘Gracepoint’ co-star Jessica Lucas on why she probably isn’t playing the killer". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 6, 2014.
“I made films with my brothers and my cousins and if any of the films ever come to fruition my career will be in ruins because the acting, writing, and directing is so unbelievably, heinously bad. We once screened one for my grandfather, this film that we had painstakingly made over a couple of days when we were all 10 years old, and he sat there and he said, "This is the worst film I've ever seen." No sympathy whatsoever.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.”

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