Gregory Benford - Timescape

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

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Cullen Hightower

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

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Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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W. Kelly Griffith

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.

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Mark Twain

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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Oscar Levant

I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'

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Utterly Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

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George Santayana

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

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