The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
–Horace Walpole
Quote: George Wald
A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.
–George Wald
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The Key to Life
When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.”
They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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Quote: Slovenian Proverb
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb
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Quote: Lemon Cannon
When life gives you lemons, invest in a lemon cannon.
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The Hudson “Miracle”
It annoys the hell out of me that people keep calling what happened during the emergency landing and evacuation of the airliner on the Hudson as a miracle.
Calling it a miracle demeans and belittles the hard work, skill, and courage of everyone involved by ripping the job they did out of their hands and making them little more than puppets of a god.
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Quote: Families
God gives us friends as an apology for giving us our families.
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Quote: Thinking
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life more refined, with a bleak capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. Thinking for its own sake, like music!
–Einstein
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Twitter: Kepler
Kepler cuts line at the bar. Bartender goes, “Hey, you’re not the center of the universe!” and Kepler goes “Ptolemy some thing I DON’T know!
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