Edward Witten Quotes
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I am a just man.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
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It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
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Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.
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It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.
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A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
