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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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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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
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If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.
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In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.
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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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Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
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I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments.
