"By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder."

-- Stanislaw Ulam

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“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt â€˜the gift of the Nileâ€™. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.”

Source : Robert Bauval (2007). “The Egypt Code”, p.33, Red Wheel Weiser
“Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.”
“The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”
“Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.”
“People are afraid of everything.”

Source : "Can Jean-Francois Cope save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.
“I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.”
“The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.”

Source : "Jay Kay: ‘Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy’". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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