Gribbin John Quotes

#1. All the home I know is a hotel. Why, I don't even have a dog ... I don't know the first thing about cooking or taking care of a house.

Pearl White

#2. Oh Christ. Put me back with the zombies, Strawberry Shortcake. [p. 411]

Richard Kadrey

#3. You always have choices, my dear. Always. Never forget that.

Cathy Hapka

#4. Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron," he said, and our best description of the atom boils down to "something unknown is doing we don't know what".

John Gribbin

#5. Nothing is real unless it is observed

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#6. I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time.

Marcel Proust

#7. Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion.

Dan Pearce

#8. I don't think kids or grown-ups should be so eager to punish "geek" enthusiasm with shaming, even if the enthusiasm is for arcane things.

David Anderegg

#9. Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

Elena Ferrante

#10. People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

Po Bronson

#11. The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union ... should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

John Quincy Adams

#12. Une with diffraction, just as if we let a thousand

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#13. Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

Walter Scott

#14. If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .

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#15. The best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design.

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#16. Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

Derek R. Audette

#17. True story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.

John Gribbin