"We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake."

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Source : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! " with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.

Adam Riess

“The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,”

Source : Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr
“I didnâ€™t say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didnâ€™t say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar rugs again Iâ€™ll take it out of your hide, and I didnâ€™t say, Oh, honey, wouldnâ€™t you like to? And he didnâ€™t say Grow up, Ms. Lane, I donâ€™t take little girls to my bed, and I didnâ€™t say I wouldnâ€™t go there if it was the only safe place from the Lord Master in all of Dublin.”
“We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.”
“While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.”
“When I said Iniesta was the world's best, you laughed. Now you can see I'm right.”
“That's really empowering - people recognize that I care about other things.”
“If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.”
“How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.”

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