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[the GOAT]

I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed ... Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.

 

[the GOAT]

And do you feel scared? I do. But I won't stop and falter.

 

[the GOAT]

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

 

[the GOAT]

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

 

[the GOAT]

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

 

[the GOAT]

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

 

[the GOAT]

Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.

 

[the GOAT]

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain

 

[the GOAT]

People need joy. Quote as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.

 

[the GOAT]

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless ... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models.

 

[the GOAT]

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

 

[the GOAT]

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

 

[the GOAT]

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

 

[the GOAT]

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

 

[the GOAT]

Male chauvinism is ... a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

 

[the GOAT]

Male chauvinism is ... a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

 

[the GOAT]

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

 

[the GOAT]

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

 

[the GOAT]

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

 

[the GOAT]

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.