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.

Edward Witten

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Wonderful
  • Directors

• 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.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Father
  • Education
  • Poor

• 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.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • People
  • High
  • Feel

• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • House
  • Down
  • Week

• 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.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Pretty
  • Look
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Her

• I am not afraid to go to jail.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Afraid
  • Jail

• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Say
  • Everyone
  • Consensus

• When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Ride
  • Egypt
  • Outsider

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• 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.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Internet

• It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Personality
  • Model
  • Say

• Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Father
  • Opportunity

• My closet is pretty organized, I'm proud to say. It's set up by type of clothes and then by color. And then, of course, there's the rotating from spring/summer to fall/winter.

  

  Behati Prinsloo
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Fall

• I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.

  

  Andrew Wyatt
  • Music
  • School

• Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.

  

  A. Lee Martinez
  • Dying
  • Accomplishment

• I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

  

  Reshma Saujani
  • Thinking
  • Becoming
  • Findings

• 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.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Simplicity