John Gribbin Quotes

#1. Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

Carl Sagan

#2. You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.

Jen Lancaster

#3. We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

#4. I would watch either Michael Cera doing comedy or Louis CK doing stand-up. This would

James Altucher

#5. No one else can fight your battles for you. In the end we all stand alone. So when it comes your time to stand front and center, raise your chin high, look everyone straight in the eye and know in your heart that you're up to the challenge.

Barbara Freethy

#6. The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.

Richard Reti

#7. 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".

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#8. Nothing is real unless it is observed

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#9. Most adults suffer from difficulties in achieving the truth, because social and educational conditionings have blocked the mind from accessing it. In psychology, this process is called crystallization, and explains the inability to change over the years.

Daniel Marques

#10. I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.

Tasha Smith

#11. Satanism represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!

Anton Szandor LaVey

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

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. Standing out from the crowd is the only way to guarantee your message is received in a culture that is increasingly distracted and where attention spans are plummeting.

Dave Burgess

#16. Unfortunately there are many kinds of psychotherapy and many psychotherapists involved with trying to prove themselves and their own theories rather than working with what is. In fact they find it very frightening to work with what is.

Chogyam Trungpa

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

John Gribbin