"Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is: 'There is no God and Dirac is His prophet.'"

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Source : "Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversations" by Werner Heisenberg, (p. 87), 1971.

Wolfgang Pauli

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“The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.”

Source : Shelby Foote (1995). “The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863”
“Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed”
“I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.”
“I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.”
“He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read. He threw the book onto his bed and went to his suitcase. After rummaging about for awhile, he came up with a long, narrow box of chocolate-covered mints. He loved to eat candy while he read, and lots of his favorite books at home had brown smudges on the corners of the pages.”

Source : John Bellairs (2002). “House with a Clock in Its Walls / Ghost in the Mirror Flip Book”, Puffin
“Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.”

Source : "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.
“If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.”
“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”

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