Charles Seife Quotes

The infinite zero of a black hole-mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely-punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the sharpness of zero. In a black hole, space and time are meaningless.

Charles Seife

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• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

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• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  

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• I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

  

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• My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.

  

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• I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

  

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• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

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• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

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• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

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• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  

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• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

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• The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

  

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• There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

  

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• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

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• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

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• I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

  

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• The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.

  

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• I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

  

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• For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

  

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• We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?

  

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• I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

  

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• The infinite zero of a black hole-mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely-punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the sharpness of zero. In a black hole, space and time are meaningless.

  

  Charles Seife
  • Time
  • Space
  • Zero