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“When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few years later Bohr in turn died, someone took a photograph of the blackboard in his study. There’s a drawing on it. A drawing of the ‘light-filled box’ in Einstein’s thought experiment. To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

tags: bohr, doubt, einstein, physics, science

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“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope" - Sazed”
― Brandon Sanderson

tags: mistborn

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“She took his hand. Sazed sat down, astonished. “The men I read about, Sazed,” Tindwyl said quietly, “these were not men who planned the best ways to hide. They fought; they sought victory. Sometimes they were reckless, and other men called them fools. Yet when the dice were cast and the bodies counted, they were men who changed things.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

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“...Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much—pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: mistborn

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“You’re not weak because you can’t read. You’re weak because you’re afraid of people seeing your weakness. You’re letting shame decide who you are. […] It’s shame that lines my pockets, shame that keeps the Barrel teeming with fools ready to put on a mask just so they can have what they want with none the wiser about it. We can endure all kinds of pain. It’s shame that eats men whole.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

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