"This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact answer. This is a theorist's heaven- exact results with approximate methods."

-- Nathan Seiberg

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“If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.”

Source : "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p.146), 1983.
“A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.”

Source : "Human Understanding". Book by Stephen Toulmin (Volume 1 "The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts", epigraph), 1972.
“I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.”
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?”
“It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.”
“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”
“Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.”
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.”

Source : "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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