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Carlo Rovelli
“When Einstein objected to quantum mechanics by remarking that “God does not play dice,” Bohr responded by admonishing him, “Stop telling God what to do.” Which means: Nature is richer than our metaphysical prejudices. It has more imagination than we do.”
Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

John   Waters
“Librarians are always smart, a little nuts, and know how to party.”
John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“But she liked this man’s quirks and imperfections, the lack of playboy smarts coupled with a quiet intelligence.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

Hildur Knútsdóttir
“Because there is nothing worse than having unexplained symptoms. Feeling like there’s something terribly wrong—but nothing that can be measured in exams, and you know the doctor thinks it’s all in your head.”
Hildur Knútsdóttir, The Night Guest

Rachel Monroe
“Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, then it must be feminist!). And some argue that women read about serial killers to avoid becoming victims. This is the most flattering theory—and also, it seemed to me, the most incomplete. By presuming that women’s dark thoughts were merely pragmatic, those thoughts are drained of their menace. True crime wasn’t something we women at CrimeCon were consuming begrudgingly, for our own good. We found pleasure in these bleak accounts of kidnappings and assaults and torture chambers, and you could tell by how often we fell back on the language of appetite, of bingeing, of obsession. A different, more alarming hypothesis was the one I tended to prefer: perhaps we liked creepy stories because something creepy was in us.”
Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

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