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Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. ”
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied research; to me, it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. ”
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ”
I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now. ”
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. ”
You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor. ”
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. ”
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ”
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. ”
We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere. ”