Arthur Eddington Quotes

Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.

Arthur Eddington

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• If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
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• I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
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  • Football

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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  • Power
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• I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Home
  • Think
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• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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  • Disaster

• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Life
  • Money

• I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Home
  • Black
  • Myself

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Find

• Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
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• As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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  • Way
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• I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

  

  Jack Levine
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Stop

• There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Islamic

• Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

  

  Jesse Harris
  • People

• I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Up
  • Space

• 'Isn’t there any way-' He broke off. Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect work in only one direction, and change is real. So what’s gone is gone, and I might as well get out of here.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Work
  • Real
  • Past

• Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Despotism

• Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.

  

  Arthur Eddington