"... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ..."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft

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“In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment. ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor, gave enormous support and encouragement to me. Bragg's own work on X-ray crystallography involved techniques very similar to those we were developing for "aperture synthesis", and he always showed a delighted interest in the way our work progressed.”
“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”

Source : Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX
“The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.”
“I guess the answer would be yes." "Got to love that word." He kissed her so sweetly then, it brought tears to her eyes. "Got it in you to say it again?" And then he did the unthinkable. He went down on one knee.”
“We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.”
“I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.”
“Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.”

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