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“Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice”
Albert Einstein
“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
D.H. Lawrence
“How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!”
Isaac Asimov
“If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.”
Niels Bohr
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics”
Richard Feynman
“A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.”
Carrie P. Snow
“Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.”
Raymond Chandler
“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.”
Robert Fulghum
