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četvrtak, 01.04.2010.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
