"Flowers make me irrationally happy."

--

Alexa Von Tobel

“What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.”

Source : Wolfgang Pauli (2008). “Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a. Band IV, Teil III: 1955–1956. Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, a.o. Volume IV, Part III: 1955–1956”, p.148, Springer-Verlag
“If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.”
“Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.”
“I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life”
“International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.”
“The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.”
“Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.”
“I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.”

You may also like:

Andy Dunn
Entrepreneur
Ben Rattray
Business person
Clara Shih
Businesswoman
Jeremy Stoppelman
Executive
Kathryn Minshew
Marissa Mayer
Engineer
Ruzwana Bashir
Businesswoman
Sheryl Sandberg
Businesswoman
Sophia Amoruso