"The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life."

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Source : Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1998.

Robert B. Laughlin

#People Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Asking Quotes

“Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”

Source : "Remaking Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1989.
“I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.”
“Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.”

Source : "Great Paintings of the World". Book by Jean-François Guillou, p. 190, 2000.
“A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes...”
“...the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.”
“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.”
“Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer - you can do it, just not as well as the others, really.”
“I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.”

Source : Source: reflections.yale.edu

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