"I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea."

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Source : Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine (2006). “Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm”, p.516, World Scientific

Frank Wilczek

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“The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.”

Source : Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1908). “Little stings”
“I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it?”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2010). “Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West”, p.486, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.”
“In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.”
“A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.”
“I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.”
“I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.”
“From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the Moon or above the Moon, but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself - one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.”

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