"The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan."

-- Henry F. Schaefer, III

#Goal Quotes #Joy Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“If you could have won, you should have.”
“How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”
“Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.”

Source : William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”
“Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.”
“Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being much more straightforward: a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but Gel'fand found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences!”
“Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.”
“That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.”
“The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.”

Source : "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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