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“In fact, before Hawking, all physicists would have claimed that black holes were indeed black bodies, but black bodies at absolute zero. Now, it's not correct to say that black bodies don't give off any light at all. Take a sooty pot and heat it to a few hundred degrees, low, and eventually it will have a bright bluish white appearance. Curiously, according to the physicists' definition, the sun is a black body. How odd, you say; the sun is about as far from being black as anything you can imagine. Indeed, the sun's surface radiates plenty of light, but it reflects none. To a physicist, that makes it a black body.”
― Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

“We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable, and that we need not come to open war.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods

“God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son, badly injured, is rushed to the hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I can't operate on this boy. He is my son”
― Mahzarin R. Banaji, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People