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		For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				George Emil Palade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. H. Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathan Myhrvold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Umberto Eco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orlando Bloom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm an economist, not a political scientist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dambisa Moyo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wallace Stevens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marge Piercy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C.P. Snow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is awesome to have the fans come here. It really pumps our guys up to have the seats full. The noise really projects onto the field and helps our guys. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vance Law 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vladimir Nabokov 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The field is the sole influence of the particle. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Albert Einstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				will.i.am