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    Wolfgang Pauli
    “This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.”
    ― Wolfgang Pauli
    tags: right, wrong
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    Wolfgang Pauli
    “I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.”
    ― Wolfgang Pauli
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    Wolfgang Pauli
    “Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his discovery of the theory of relativity. Admittedly, this is a far cry from the contents of religion. I don't believe Einstein is tied to any religious tradition, and I rather think the idea of a personal God is entirely foreign to him.”
    ― Wolfgang Pauli
    tags: albert-einstein, einstein, foreign, naturalism, nature, order, relativity, religious-tradition, science, theory-of-relativity
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    Wolfgang Pauli
    “Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. (There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet.)

    {A remark made during the Fifth Solvay International Conference (October 1927), after a discussion of the religious views of various physicists, at which all the participants laughed, including Dirac, as quoted in Teil und das Ganze (1969), by Werner Heisenberg, p. 119; it is an ironic play on the Muslim statement of faith, the Shahada, often translated: 'There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet.'}”
    ― Wolfgang Pauli
    tags: allah, atheism, dirac, heisenberg, humor, islam, muhammad, muslim, paul-am-dirac, paul-dirac, physics, prophet, religious-views, science, werner-heisenberg
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  • #5
    “Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.”
    ― Robert Rubin, In an Uncertain World
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    Robertson Davies
    “The house stank; a stench all its own pervaded every corner. It was a threnody in the key of Cat minor, with a ground-bass of Old Dog, and modulations of old people, waning lives, and relinquished hopes.”
    ― Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels
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    John Donne
    “On a huge hill,
    Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will
    Reach her, about must, and about must goe;
    And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so;
    Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight,
    Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.”
    ― John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
    tags: philosophy-of-religion
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
    tags: humor
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    Mark Twain
    “It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled.
    No man's life,liberty, and property are
    safe while the legislature is in session.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns
    tags: classic-insult, harvard, humor, innuendo, naughty, yale
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  • #11
    “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
    ― Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
    tags: humor, programming
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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    Mark Twain
    “A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
    ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
    tags: cats, home
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A mask tells us more than a face.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: face, mask
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    Mervyn Peake
    “I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.

    - Coloured Money”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Collected Poems
    tags: beauty, beauty-in-nature, eyes, gold, riches, wealth
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    C.J. Cherryh
    “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
    ― C. J. Cherryh
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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