Steven Weinberg Quotes
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
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. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
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Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
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Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
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If I do an interview, then I take full responsibility. I figure I'm not going to talk to anyone that I think is unethical anyway.
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I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I work, I hope I'm not a woman from Mexico but an artist in body and spirit.
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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.
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All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.
