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Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.


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Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.



Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.



The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.



If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.



Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.



Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.



You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars



Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.



I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.



What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.





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A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.



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There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.



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Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon's daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of her husband, a comatose werewolf dandy, and a French inventor.

Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon's daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of her husband, a comatose werewolf dandy, and a French inventor.



It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.



America needs a president who can fix the economy because he understands the economy, and I do and I will.

America needs a president who can fix the economy because he understands the economy, and I do and I will.



Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.



The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.



Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.

Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.




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