"For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor."

-- Max von Laue

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“I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.”
“You can't bank on the outcome.”
“See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.”
“A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.”
“I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.”
“My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.”
“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.”
“Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.”

Source : US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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