Ashoke Sen Quotes
My work on symmetries of string theory is on what is known as strong-weak coupling duality, or S-duality.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
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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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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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But love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, To the great sender turns a sour offense, Crying, 'That's good that's gone.
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The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.
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I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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All such problems can be formulated as mathematical programming problems. Naturally, we can propose many sophisticated algorithms and a theory but the final test of a theory is its capacity to solve the problems which originated it.
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My work on symmetries of string theory is on what is known as strong-weak coupling duality, or S-duality.
