Edward Witten Quotes
String theory is extremely attractive because gravity is forced upon us. All known consistent string theories include gravity, so while gravity is impossible in quantum field theory as we have known it, it is obligatory in string theory.
Quotes to Explore
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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We are responsible for our incredulity.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
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People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.
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I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.
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People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.
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I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
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Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
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A man couldn’t jump higher than himself, she pointed out to me. And he couldn’t help it if he was a “zoodnik”; one so annoying, he made you itch.
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String theory is extremely attractive because gravity is forced upon us. All known consistent string theories include gravity, so while gravity is impossible in quantum field theory as we have known it, it is obligatory in string theory.
