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“I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.”

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Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

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What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical…

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When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying…

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I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even…

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If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how…

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A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

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It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could…

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Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.

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If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no…

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The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description…

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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of…

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I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in…

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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In…

Gertrude B. Elion

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The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

Joseph Campbell

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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

Charles Lindbergh

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I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

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All Philosophy is Biography

Peter J. Carroll

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Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive…

Theodore Dalrymple

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I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or…

Albert Goldbarth

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The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I…

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I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent…

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I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's…

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Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only…

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