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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]”
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[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]”
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Jacob’s 2024 Year in Books
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