"Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution."

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Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Leon M. Lederman

#Revolution Quotes #Status Quo Quotes

“Curation comes up when search stops working,”
“A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.”
“I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.”
“To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.”
“Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you walk in the room because they're like, 'His hair's good or she's got the right skin color' or whatever. It's so random, but it's so physically oriented.”
“Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.”
“Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity , and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.”

Source : "Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning (Freud: Within and Beyond Culture)". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1965.
“There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.”

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