Rainer Weiss Quotes
We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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He's a rat. That's not true. I'm just concerned about my son.
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Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
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O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to lie But I know a place where we can go And wash away this sin We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair spill all around me Offer up your best defence But this is the end This is the end of the innocence
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperch, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.
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I thought that there must be an easier way to explain how a gravitational wave interacts with matter: If one just looked at the most primitive thing of all, 3D floating masses out in space, and look at how the space between them changed because of the gravitational wave coming between them.
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We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.
