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1 " It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being. "
― Rebecca Goldstein , Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics
2 " We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant people who are harboring unawares the grandeur of large deaths. We carry it in us like a darkening fruit. It opens and spills out. That is death. "
3 " I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all. "
4 " Since physics is poetry, then poetry is physics, he propounded. "
5 " The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth. "
6 " It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder. "
