"It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different."

-- John Archibald Wheeler

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“Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.”
“The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 19, 2011
“Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.”
“Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems for Children (Illustrated): Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm & Penelope Hamilton Series: Rose o' the River, A Summer in a Cañon, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Timothy's Quest, The Arabian Nights, Golden Numbers & many more”, p.2264, e-artnow
“If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.”
“[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother was doing - I remember when my mother graduated from beauty college, so I was about 5, and so I guess she was about 21. And I just remember being there, taking the pictures and seeing her get her diploma and everything. But she was doing hair for many years. during that time, she kind of started to discover or tap into her religious studies. It was around the time I was starting to go through puberty and hitting, like, 12, 13.”
“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.”

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