Ted Kosmatka Quotes

#1. The math says you can either know the position of an electron or the momentum, but never both.

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#2. I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia.

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#3. She brought her hand up to find my cheek. "Why are the brilliant ones always so fucked up?

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#4. So there is only this place." He gestured around him. "Only work. People forget they are going to die someday. There's more to life than career and paycheck.

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#5. If you study magic, does it become science?"
"You learn it's all science.

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#6. I drank until I couldn't remember which hand held the gun and which the bottle. I drank until they were the same.

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#7. You look at your child's face, and you don't wonder whose side you're on. You know. That side.

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#8. And there was the true artistry of a golden tongue. To be able to speak for an hour without revealing anything. To speak without leaving the impression that your words, by the hundreds, were full of empty air.

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#9. Never trust a man with only one book.

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#10. And how I hated the term, politically incorrect, hated the shield it gave racists who got to label themselves politically incorrect, instead of admitting what they really were. Even to themselves.

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#11. I shook my head. "After a while, quantum mechanics starts to affect your worldview." "What does this mean?" "The more research I did, the less I believed." "In quantum mechanics?" "No," I said. "In the world.

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#12. Once you believe in quantum mechanics," I said, "it's hard to rule something out merely because it is impossible.

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#13. And is that what you'd wish for him, to have an easy life?"
"Isn't that what every parent wishes for?"
"No," I said. I touched my own stomach. I put my small hand over his large one. "I hope our son grows to be a good man.

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