"If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist."

-- Peter Debye

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“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press
“Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press
“When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.”
“I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.”

Source : Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
“People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds,”

Source : "Robert Downey Jr. On Dating Sarah Jessica Parker, Parenting And Drug Use", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2008.
“After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”

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