“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”
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
“We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“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.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Sometimes it is the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine.”
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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.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
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