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Oliver Sacks

Oliver W. Sacks (9 July 1933 - 30 August 2015) was a British-born neurologist and author living in New York City.

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 * My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday).  The sense of diversity—of the wonder of innumerable forms of life—has always thrilled me beyond anything else.
 * Personal correspondence, quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, "Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!", Dinosaur in a Haystack (Harmony, 1995), p. 245

 * The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe. ... [The forest] has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things. The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.  Now, as I wandered in the cycad forest on Rota, it seemed as if my senses were actually enlarging, as if a new sense, a time sense, was opening within me, something which might allow me to appreciate millennia or aeons as directly as I had experienced seconds or minutes. ... Standing here in the jungle, I feel part of a larger, calmer identity; I feel a profound sense of being at home, a sort of companionship with the earth.
 * “The Island of the Colour-blind and Cycad Island” (Picador, London, 1996) pages 223-225

 * Lemurs are close to the ancestral stock from which all primates arose, and I am happy to think that one of my own ancestors, 50 million years ago, was a little tree-dwelling creature not so dissimilar to the lemurs of today. I love their leaping vitality, their inquisitive nature.
 * My Periodic Table, New York Times, 24 July 2015

 * Some employees in slaughterhouses, she notes, rapidly develop a protective hardness and start killing animals in a purely mechanical way: “The person doing the killing approaches his job as if he was stapling boxes moving along a conveyor belt. He has no emotions about his act.” Others, she reveals, “start to enjoy killing and . . . torment the animals on purpose.” Speaking of these attitudes turned Temple’s mind to a parallel: “I find a very high correlation,” she said, “between the way animals are treated and the handicapped. . . . Georgia is a snake pit—they treat [handicapped people] worse than animals. . . . Capital-punishment states are the worst animal states and the worst for the handicapped.” All this makes Temple passionately angry, and passionately concerned for humane reform: she wants to reform the treatment of the handicapped, especially the autistic, as she wants to reform the treatment of cattle in the meat industry.
 * An Anthropologist On Mars, The New Yorker, 27 December 1993

 * Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects—seeming breakdowns in the course of nature itself.
 * An Anthropologist On Mars, The New Yorker, 27 December 1993

 * Temple, who was driving, suddenly faltered and wept. “I’ve read that libraries are where immortality lies. . . . I don’t want my thoughts to die with me. . . . I want to have done something. . . . I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution—know that my life has meaning. Right now, I’m talking about things at the very core of my existence.” I was stunned. As I stepped out of the car to say goodbye, I said, “I’m going to hug you. I hope you don’t mind.” I hugged her—and (I think) she hugged me back.
 * An Anthropologist On Mars, The New Yorker, 27 December 1993

 * While autism is a developmental disorder, sometimes a devastating one, there is always within the autism a unique and sometimes strangely gifted individual. The great psychoanalyst Winicott used to feel that there was something like a tulip in every person and this was their essence and that this internal part of them was inaccessible to the person themselves and should not be meddled with or touched by psychoanalysis or anything else and one wonders if there is not some autistic essence like this tulip which needs to be respected and not meddled with.
 * Rage For Order episode of Oliver Sacks: The Mind Traveller

Uncle Tungsten (2001)
Quotations are from the Knopf hardcover edition, ISBN 0-375-40448-1 (337 pp.)

 * Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell.  An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
 * p. 90

 * We had a large old-fashioned battery, a wet cell, in the kitchen, hooked up to an electric bell. The bell was too complicated to understand at first, and the battery, to my mind, was more immediately attractive, for it contained an earthenware tube with a massive, gleaming copper cylinder in the middle, immersed in a bluish liquid, all this inside an outer glass casing, also filled with fluid, and containing a slimmer bar of zinc.  It looked like a miniature chemical factory of sorts, and I thought I saw little bubbles of gas, at times, coming off the zinc.  The Daniell cell (as it was called) had a thoroughly nineteenth-century, Victorian look about it, and this extraordinary object was making electricity all by itself—not by rubbing or friction, but just by the virtue of its own chemical reactions.
 * p. 160

 * I never heard [my parents] talk between themselves about Palestine or Zionism, and I suspected they had no strong convictions on the subject, at least until after the war, when the horror of the Holocaust made them feel there should be a “National Home.” I felt they were bullied by the organizers of these meetings, and by the gangsterlike evangelists who would pound at the front door and demand large sums for yeshivas or “schools in Israel.”  My parents, clearheaded and independent in most other ways, seemed to become soft and helpless in the face of these demands, perhaps driven by a sense of obligation or anxiety.  My own feelings […] were passionately negative: I came to hate Zionism and evangelism and politicking of every sort, which I regarded as noisy and intrusive and bullying.
 * p. 171

 * On one occasion—it was an oppressive Saturday in the tense summer of 1939—I decided to ride my tricycle up and down Exeter Road near the house, but there was a sudden downpour and I got completely soaked. [Aunt] Annie wagged a finger at me, and shook her heavy head: “Riding on shabbas?  You can't get away with it,” she said.  “He sees everything, He is watching all the time!”  I disliked Saturdays from this time on, disliked God, too (or at least the vindictive, punitive God that Annie's warning had evoked) and developed an uncomfortable, anxious, watched feeling about Saturdays (which persists, a little, to this day).
 * p. 172

 * When I was fourteen or fifteen […] the Yom Kippur service ended in an unforgettable way, for Schechter, who always put great effort into the blowing of the shofar—he would go red in the face with exertion—produced a long, seemingly endless note of unearthly beauty, and then dropped dead before us on the bema, the raised platform where he would sing. I had the feeling that God had killed Schechter, sent a thunderbolt, stricken him.  The shock of this for everyone was tempered by the reflection that if there was ever a moment in which a soul was pure, forgiven, relieved of all sin, it was at this moment, when the shofar was blown in conclusion of the fast […].
 * p. 177

 * During the war the congregation was largely broken up […] and it was never really reconstituted after the war. […] Before the war my parents (I, too) had known almost every shop and shopkeeper in Cricklewood […] and I would see them all in their places in shul.  But all this was shattered with the impact of the war, and then with the rapid postwar social changes in our corner of London.  I myself, traumatized at Braefield, had lost touch with, lost interest in, the religion of my childhood.  I regret that I was to lose it as early and as abruptly as I did, and this feeling of sadness or nostalgia was strangely admixed with a raging atheism, a sort of fury with God for not existing, not taking care, not preventing the war, but allowing it, and all its horrors, to occur.
 * pp. 178–179

 * When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, “smoked salmon and Bach.” (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)
 * p. 182

 * A spectacular anomaly came up with the hydrides of the nonmetals—an ugly bunch, about as inimical to life as one could get. Arsenic and antimony hydrides were very poisonous and smelly; silicon and phosphorous hydrides were spontaneously inflammable.  I had made in my lab the hydrides of sulfur (H2S), selenium (H2Se), and tellurium (H2Te), all Group VI elements, all dangerous and vile-smelling gases.  The hydride of oxygen, the first Group VI element, one might predict by analogy, would be a foul-smelling, poisonous, inflammable gas, too, condensing to a nasty liquid around −100°C.  And instead it was water, H2O—stable, potable, odorless, benign, and with a host of special, indeed unique properties (its expansion when frozen, its great heat capacity, its capacity as an ionizing solvent, etc.) which made it indispensable to our watery planet, indispensable to life itself.  What made it such an anomaly?  […]  (This question, I found, had only been resolved recently, in the 1930s, with Linus Pauling's delineation of the hydrogen bond.)
 * pp. 204–205

 * It came upon me sometime in my fifteenth year that I no longer woke up with sudden excitements—“Today I will get the Clerici solution! Today I will read about Humphry Davy and electric fish!  Today I will finally understand diamagnetism, perhaps!”  I no longer seemed to get these sudden illuminations, these epiphanies, these excitements which Flaubert (whom I was now reading) called “erections of the mind.”  Erections of the body, yes, this was a new, exotic part of life—but those sudden raptures of the mind, those sudden landscapes of glory and illumination, seemed to have deserted or abandoned me.  Or had I, in fact, abandoned them?
 * p. 310

 * This new quantum mechanics promised to explain all of chemistry. And though I felt an exuberance at this, I felt a certain threat, too.  “Chemistry,” wrote Crookes, “will be established upon an entirely new basis….  We shall be set free from the need for experiment, knowing a priori what the result of each and every experiment must be.”  I was not sure I liked the sound of this.  Did this mean that chemists of the future (if they existed) would never actually need to handle a chemical; might never see the colors of vanadium salts, never smell a hydrogen selenide, never admire the form of a crystal; might live in a colorless, scentless, mathematical world?  This, for me, seemed and awful prospect, for I, at least, needed to smell and touch and feel, to place myself, my senses, in the middle of the perceptual world.
 * pp. 312–313

 * And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […]  Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”).  But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals—my old and valued friends—Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.
 * p. 317

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Taslima Nasrin

Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion.

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 * They defend rapists. Mamata di says ‘sometimes boys become naughty.’ Mulayam ji says ‘sometimes boys make mistakes’.
 * — taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) April 10, 2014

 * I was born in a Muslim family and Muslim women suffer under Islam.
 * "Islam is history: Taslima", Telugu Portal (22 August, 2006).

 * Do you really think a God who created the universe, billions of galaxies, stars, billions of planets- would promise to reward some little things in a pale blue dot (i.e Earth) for repeatedly saying that he is the greatest and kindest and for fasting? Such a great creator can't be so narcissist!
 * "Taslima on God's narcissism", Twitter (22 August, 2017).

 * Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
 * "Taslima Nasrin: A Writer On Trial", Interview with Kerry O'Brien on "Lateline", ABC TV (1995).

 * The Islam religion and their scriptures are out of place and out of time. It still follows the 7th century laws and is hopeless. The need of the hour is not reformation but revolution.

 * Every ban and censorship hurt. But banishment hurts the most. Banishment took away the ground from beneath my feet. What I need now most is a firm footing to stand up somewhere to fight for the freedom of expression. I was banished from both East and West Bengal.
 * Taslima Nasrin, Inteview with Firstpost, (2016)
 * Many of my books are banned in Bangladesh. My book was banned in West Bengal too. Its government not only banned my book, it forced me to leave the state too. The new government banned the release of my book Nirbasan in 2012 and a few months ago forced a TV channel called Akash Ath to stop telecast of a mega serial I wrote. The serial was about women’s struggle and how three sisters living in Calcutta fight against patriarchal oppression to live their lives with dignity and honour. She (Mamata Banerjee) banned me to appease some misogynist mullahs.
 * Taslima Nasrin, quoted in Outlook India,

 * Politicians are all on the same platform when it comes down to me. I think it’s because they think that if they can satisfy the Muslim fundamentalists they will get votes. I believe I am a victim of votebank politics. This also shows that how weak the democracy is and politicians ask votes by banning a writer ... Even though I am not staying there, she (Banerjee) has not allowed my book ‘Nirbasan’ to be published. Also, she has stopped the broadcast of a TV serial scripted by me after Muslim fundamentalists objected to it. She is not allowing me to enter the state… This is a dangerous opposition ... I wrote to Mamata Banerjee. But there was no response to that… No I am not going to write to her again. I do not think she will consider my request. I feel very hopeless because I expected something positive. I think when it comes down to me, she has similar vision like that of the Left leaders.... I do not consider India as a foreign country. The history of this country is my history. It’s the country of my forefathers. I love this country and in Kolkata, I feel at home because I can relate that place to my homeland. ...  I have sacrificed my freedom and have been sacrificing for a big cause… All these (problems) are because of my writings. I could have stopped writing against fundamentalists and possibly the bans would have been removed and I had got back my freedom and allowed to enter my motherland again. But I will never do that. ... I have spoken of humanism and equal rights for women and secularism stating that religion and nation should be treated separately. One should not get confused with nation and religion. Rules should be made based on equality, and not on religion. ... I know that only by writing I will not be able to change an entire society. The laws need to be changed. Equal rights cannot be established in a short time, it requires a long time and huge efforts ...  I have got many awards but the best is when people come forward and tell me that my writings have help them change their vision,... I do not think I would have been treated in the same manner if I was born there (Europe). I am a writer, not an activist... I write with a pen and if you have any problem why do not you pick up a pen to protest.... The surprising thing in this part of the world is that they have picked up arms against me because I have expressed my views. I have never enforced my thoughts on anybody ever, then why they are trying to kill me. I am not a supporter of violence.
 * Taslima Nasrin about Mamata, Indian Express

 * “The producer and director were developing my story to a mega series. They had shot around 100 episodes after which the ban was imposed. The Muslim fanatics in Bengal, supported by the ruling Trinamool Congress played havoc when the serial was to be aired. The chief minister was instrumental in imposing the ban. It is interesting to see that the same person (Mamata Bangerjee) is now advocating for freedom of expression and calling it super emergency,” “This is sheer double standard..... If some people do not like a representation of art, there are other ways to counter it. I never support violent attack on artistic freedom. I also do not support the trend of issuing fatwa. But, there are politicians, who support or protest on the basis of religion. Why are rules being tweaked for one particular community in Bengal? Why did Mamata Banerjee’s government never allow me to work there, allow my books to be published? Freedom of expression, the most important character of a democracy, is always under attack for vested political interest. Nobody criticises things neutrally,”
 * Taslima Nasrin about Mamata, Economic Times

 * I have told the story of a progressive, educated, Hindu family of this country in Lajja. The family falls victim to communal violence, where a rationalist and atheist young man gradually transforms into a staunch Hindu, becomes a fundamentalist and gets destroyed in the process. The state destroys him, the government destroys him and gradually mushrooming religious fanaticism destroys him. He is defeated. Many young men in this country are transforming from human beings to Hindus. They are being repeatedly victimized by the state, in educational institutions, workplaces, business and trade, all because of religious discrimination. They are being labelled second-class citizens. Why should I not speak the truth? The truth will always be valued. The ones who make a truth controversial, the fault lies with them and not with the truth. And the ones who blame the truth support the actions of the miscreants. The Hindus getting into trouble here is a bad excuse. Those who like to stay silent for the sake of convenience are responsible for eroding human strength and courage. They are cowards and exploiters. They are the biggest threats to all minority communities. They believe if you point out a wrong it will lead to trouble. The same argument works for the Muslims there.
 * Nāsarina, T., & Chakraborty, M. (2018). Split: A life.

 * Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.
 * Nāsarina, T., & Chakraborty, M. (2018). Split: A life.

 * [Women in Islamic countries] are exposed to male domination as a rule rather than as an exception... If anyone protests... as I have done, you are sure to be branded as a witch... What I demand is freedom for women from male domination and a uniform code... It that can be construed as blasphemy, I cannot help it.
 * Quoted from Ram Swarup, Woman in Islam, 2000

 * Writer-activist Taslima Nasreen reminded the world with her article ‘A sign of hope — Bengali Muslims are finally protesting Mamata’s appeasement politics’ in the Print, on 29 June 2009, that even during the rule of the Left, minority appeasement was a given: ‘Imam Barkati of the Tipu Sultan mosque had issued a fatwa against me in broad daylight at a public meeting in Dharamtala (on 10 June 2006), in the heart of the city of Kolkata. He had put a price on my head – for anyone who would murder me. There had been many police officers at that meeting that day, but let alone arresting the imam, no one even questioned why he did something that was ostensibly against the laws of the country. Rather, I remember the police providing him with security and then CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and his ministers showering him with favours.’
 * Quoted from  HALDER, DEEP. 2021. BENGAL 2021: an election diary. [S.l.]: HARPERCOLLINS INDIA.

 * Facebook banned me.I'm not allowed to post/comment for 7days. My posts,fb claimed, didn't follow their community standard.Actually fb banned me because of jihadis report. My posts don't follow Jihadis' community standard.When did fb & jihadis community standards become the same?
 * Taslima, in Twitter Sep 2021

 * Facebook has banned me for writing '' Islamists destroyed Bangladeshi Hindu houses & temples believing that Hindus placed Quran on Hanuman's thigh.
 * Tweet on twitter 2021

Lajja

 * It is disgraceful that the Hindus in my country were hunted by the Muslims after the destruction of the Babri Masjid. All of us who love Bangladesh should feel ashamed that such a terrible thing ‘could happen in our beautiful country. The riots that took place in 1992 in Bangladesh are the responsibility of us all, and we are all to blame.
 * Preface

 * Lajja was published in February 1993 in Bangladesh and sold over 60,000 copies before it was banned by the government five months later—their excuse was that it was disturbing the communal peace. In September that year a fatwa was issued against me by a fundamentalist organization and a reward was offered for my death, There have been marches on the streets of Dhaka by communalists clamouring for my life. But none of these things have shaken my determination to continue the battle against religious persecution, genocide and communalism.
 * Preface

 * ‘Riots break out in all countries. Aren’t there riots in India? Aren’t people dying there? Have you kept track of the number of people who've died?” “If it were riots I'd understand, Baba. These aren’t riots. It is simply a case of Muslims killing Hindus.’
 * Day Twelve, 213

 * A mute question thumped inside Suranjan’s heart. It was almost dawn and through the cracks in the window, sunlight streamed in. Sudhamoy said, ‘Come, let us go away.’ Suranjan could not conceal his surprise. ‘Where will we go, Baba?’ he asked. Sudhamoy said, ‘India.’ And his voice cracked as the shame swept over him. But he had said it, he had forced it out, he had compelled himself to say that they would go; and he had realized that that was the way it would have to be because the strong mountain that he had built within himself was crumbling day by day.
 * Day Thirteen, 216

About Taslima Nasrin

 * With its extreme dependence on foreign aid, Bangladesh is understandably concerned about not offending Western sensibilities too much., Its government did not insist on implementing the prison sentence pronounced by a court against feminist author Taslima Nasrin for her 1994 book Shame, much less the death sentence pronounced by individual Muftis. Instead it preferred to send her into exile and be rid of the whole controversy. Her latest book, Wild Wind, is the object of yet another ban by the Islamist-leaning government of Khaleda Zia, the reason given being that it “destroys the socio-political amity of the country” and “contains anti-Islamic statements.”
 * Koenraad Elst: Afterword: The Rushdie Affair's Legacy, in Pipes, D., & Elst, K. (2004). The Rushdie affair: The novel, the Ayatollah, and the West. New Brunswick [u.a.: Transaction Publ.

 * In the reviews of Taslima Nasreen's book Lajja, practically all commentators have ignored her description of the atrocities on Hindus. Many of them falsely attributed the death sentence pronounced against her by a Mufti to her feminism, when in fact it was her drawing attention to the plight of the infidel Hindus which earned her the deadly wrath of the Islamic fanatics. These commentators demonstrated on a world-wide sclae the determined denial to the Hindus of even their martyrs.
 * Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". p 811

 * We have praised Taslima for speaking for Muslim women who do not have many spokesmen in the Muslim world. But her real glory is that she has also spoken for the persecuted Hindus in her country - for whom no one speaks, not even the Hindus.
 * Ram Swarup, Woman in Islam, 2000.   Ram Swarup, Woman in Islam, 2000 . page viii, Preface

 * A news item from Dhaka says that "A radical Muslim priest has offered love and marriage to Bangladesh's most controversial feminist writer, Taslima Nasreen, in order to bring her to the faith". "She will be my third wife," said Mr. Rahim Baksh, an Islamic cleric in Cox's Bazar town in southeastern Bangladesh.
 * Rahim Baksh, Times of India Briefs, New Delhi, 22.11.93. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 6

 * Taslima Nasreen is known as a heretic in orthodox Islamic circles. She has been a vocal advocate of human rights, especially the rights of the women in Islam. However, she has paid dearly for speaking out the truth. There are still many fatwas against her calling for her killing. She is living a life of self-exile outside her native country of Bangladesh since 1994.
 * Tiwari, D. P., ,. (2019). The great indian conspiracy. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

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Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 - October 24, 1991) was born in El Paso, Texas and spent his boyhood in Los Angeles. He is best remembered for creating the science fiction television series Star Trek and was one of the first people to be buried in space.

Quotes

 *  Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.
 * Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, "Mission Logs: Year Five", "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry", 0:26:09)

 * The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
 * As quoted in Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (1992) by Edythe Draper

 * The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
 * Shown at the end of the episode "Scorched Earth", no. 14 in the 3rd season of Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, first aired on February 7, 2000.

 * We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
 * As quoted in Can A Smart Person Believe in God? (2004) by Michael Guillen, Ch. 7 : Hope Springs Eternal, p. 90

 * I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will — and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
 * As quoted in In His Name (2010) by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39

 * I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons . . . God is, for lack of a better term, clout. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.
 * "Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum", Karen Anijar, 2004, p.38; quoted in Sweeney, 1995:8

 * I do not belong to any church, but I do consider myself a religious man...part of the creative and intelligence behind life. Therefore, if we are part of God than our lives are not brief meaningless things, but rather have a great importance and significance.
 * Ibdb p.61. as quoted in Alexander, 1994:423

 * I listened to the sermon, and I remember complete astonishment because what they were talking about were things that were just crazy. It was communion time, where you eat this wafer and are supposed to be eating the body of Christ and drinking his blood. My first impression was, "This is a bunch of cannibals they've put me down among!" For some time, I puzzled over this and puzzled over why they were saying these things, because the connection between what they were saying and reality was very tenuous. How the hell did Jesus become something to be eaten? I guess from that time it was clear to me that religion was largely nonsense--largely magical, superstitious things. In my own teen life, I just couldn't see any point in adopting something based on magic, which was obviously phony and superstitious.
 * The Humanist, Mar/Apr 1991

 * I think I’ve gone through quite an ordinary series of steps in life. I began as most children began, with God and Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny all being about the same thing. Then I went through the things that I think sensitive people go through, wrestling with the thoughts of Jesus—did he shit? Did he screw? I began to dare to believe that God wasn’t some white beard. I began to look upon the miseries of the human race and to think God was not as simple as my mother said. As nearly as I can concentrate on the question today, I believe I am God; certainly you are, I think we intelligent beings on this planet are all a piece of God, are becoming God. In some sort of cyclical non-time thing we have to become God, so that we can end up creating ourselves, so that we can be in the first place. ... My own feeling is that relation to God as a person is a petty, superstitious approach to the All, the infinite.
 * As quoted in God & (1975) by Terrance A. Sweeney

 * No one could know Serling, or view or read his work, without recognizing his deep affection for humanity, his sympathetically enthusiastic curiosity about us, and his determination to enlarge our horizons by giving us a better understanding of ourselves. He dreamed of much for us, and demanded much of himself, perhaps more than was possible for either in this time and place. But it is that quality of dreams and demands that makes the ones like Rod Serling rare ...and always irreplaceable.
 * Eulogy for Rod Serling (1975) Rodserling.com

Misattributed

 * Time is the fire in which we burn.
 * Source: The Delmore Schwartz poem "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day" from Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems (1959). The line was quoted in Star Trek: Generations; Schwartz was given credit in the film.

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"Gene, I can't do that to this agent," I said. "He got me the job." And then he said, and I will never forget his exact words, "Well, you're just going to have to learn how to bow down and say master."
 * He looked at me and said, "The difference between your agent and me is that your agent can't get you out of here at five o’clock on Friday and I can. And all it'll cost you is twenty percent".
 * As quoted by Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner in Up Till Now "Shatner: Roddenberry Was A Chiseler" TrekMovie.com, June 2, 2008

 * He was a chiseler who wanted a cut of outside money his cast earned, demanded to be called 'master,' and prohibited poor Nimoy from using a company pencil.
 * William Shatner, "Shatner: Roddenberry Was A Chiseler" TrekMovie.com, June 2, 2008

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Werner Heisenberg

Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the founders of the field of quantum mechanics.

Quotes

 * The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
 * Initial statement of the Uncertainty principle in "Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik" in Zeitschrift für Physik, 43 (1927)
 * Variant translation: The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
 * As quoted in "The Uncertainty Principle" at the American Institute of Physics

 * Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language. It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consist only of processes involving exceedingly large numbers of atoms. Furthermore, it is very difficult to modify our language so that it will be able to describe these atomic processes, for words can only describe things of which we can form mental pictures, and this ability, too, is a result of daily experience. Fortunately, mathematics is not subject to this limitation, and it has been possible to invent a mathematical scheme — the quantum theory — which seems entirely adequate for the treatment of atomic processes; for visualisation, however, we must content ourselves with two incomplete analogies — the wave picture and the corpuscular picture.
 * "Introductory" in The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (1930) as translated by Carl Eckhart and Frank C. Hoyt, p. 10

 * Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
 * "Critique of the Physical Concepts of the Corpuscular Theory" in The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (1930) as translated by Carl Eckhart and Frank C. Hoyt, p. 20; also in "The Uncertainty Principle" in The World of Mathematics : A Small Library of the Literature of Mathematics (1956) by James Roy Newman, p. 1051

 * Die Quantentheorie ist so ein wunderbares Beispiel dafür, daß man einen Sachverhalt in völliger Klarheit verstanden haben kann und gleichzeitig doch weiß, daß man nur in Bildern und Gleichnissen von ihm reden kann.
 * Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
 * Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik (1969); also in "Kein Chaos, aus dem nicht wieder Ordnung würde", Die Zeit No. 34 (22 August 1969); as translated in Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversation (1971)

 * Ein Fachmann ist ein Mann, der einige der gröbsten Fehler kennt, die man in dem betreffenden Fach machen kann, und der sie deshalb zu vermeiden versteht.
 * An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
 * Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik (1969); also in "Kein Chaos, aus dem nicht wieder Ordnung würde", Die Zeit No. 34 (22 August 1969); as translated in Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversation (1971)

 * In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas — and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
 * Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversation (1971), p. 70

 * The problem of values is nothing but the problem of our acts, goals and morals. It concerns the compass by which we must steer our ship if we are to set a true course through life. The compass itself has been given different names by various religions and philosophies: happiness, the will of God, the meaning of life-to mention just a few. The differences in the names reflect profound differences in the awareness of different human groups. I have no wish to belittle these differences, but I have the clear impression that all such formulations try to express man's relatedness to a central order.
 * Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversation (1971), p. 214

 * Can you, or anyone else, reach the central order of things or events, whose existence seems beyond doubt, as directly as you can reach the soul of another human being? I am using the term 'soul' quite deliberately so as not to be misunderstood. If you put your question like that, I would say yes. ... the word 'soul' refers to the central order, to the inner core of a being whose outer manifestations may be highly diverse and pass our understanding.
 * In response to the question "Do you believe in a personal God?" from Wolfgang Pauli, as recalled in Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversation (1971), p. 215

 * There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
 * Heisenberg's praise for Ruth Anshen's book Biography of An Idea found on the back cover—the book was published in 1986 after his death, but was the result of conversations over many years, including some with Heisenberg discussed starting on p. 39.

 * After these conversations with Tagore some of the ideas that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. That was a great help for me.
 * On conversations with Rabindranath Tagore, as quoted in Uncommon Wisdom: Conversations With Remarkable People (1988) by Fritjof Capra, who states that after these "He began to see that the recognition of relativity, interconnectedness, and impermanence as fundamental aspects of physical reality, which had been so difficult for himself and his fellow physicists, was the very basis of the Indian spiritual traditions."
 * Variant: After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
 * As quoted in Pride of India (2006) by Samskrita Bharati. p. 56

 * I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
 * Das Naturgesetz und die Struktur der Materie (1967), as translated in Natural Law and the Structure of Matter (1981), p. 34

 * If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, axioms, etc.—to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are "true," that they reveal a genuine feature of nature... You must have felt this too: The almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.
 * Conversation with Einstein, as quoted in Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior by Del Thiessen

 * Of course, we all know that our own reality depends on the structure of our consciousness; we can objectify no more than a small part of our world. But even when we try to probe into the subjective realm, we cannot ignore the central order…In the final analysis, the central order, or 'the one' as it used to be called and with which we commune in the language of religion, must win out.
 * Quoted by & Brenda J. Dunne, Quirks of the Quantum Mind (2012) p. 175, ICRL Press, ISBN 1936033062

 * The great scientific contribution in theoretical physics that has come from Japan since the last war may be an indication of a certain relationship between philosophical ideas in the tradition of the Far East and the philosophical substance of quantum theory.
 * Quoted from F. Capra, The Tao of Physics.

 * After a great war, history is written by the victors and legends develop which glorify them.
 * from p. 35 of "The Third Reich and The Atomic Bomb [Review of The Virus House by David Irving]" in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Pp. 34-35, June 1968), translated from the German by Margaret Seckel.

The Development of Quantum Mechanics (1933)

 * Nobel lecture (11 December 1933) Full text online (PDF)

 * The interest of research workers has frequently been focused on the phenomenon of regularly shaped crystals suddenly forming from a liquid, e.g. a supersaturated salt solution. According to the atomic theory the forming force in this process is to a certain extent the symmetry characteristic of the solution to Schrödinger's wave equation, and to that extent crystallization is explained by the atomic theory. Nevertheless this process retains a statistical and — one might almost say — historical element which cannot be further reduced: even when the state of the liquid is completely known before crystallization, the shape of the crystal is not determined by the laws of quantum mechanics. The formation of regular shapes is just far more probable than that of a shapeless lump. But the ultimate shape owes its genesis partly to an element of chance which in principle cannot be analysed further.

 * However the development proceeds in detail, the path so far traced by the quantum theory indicates that an understanding of those still unclarified features of atomic physics can only be acquired by foregoing visualization and objectification to an extent greater than that customary hitherto. We have probably no reason to regret this, because the thought of the great epistemological difficulties with which the visual atom concept of earlier physics had to contend gives us the hope that the abstracter atomic physics developing at present will one day fit more harmoniously into the great edifice of Science.

Physics and Philosophy (1958)

 * Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (1958) Lectures delivered at University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Winter 1955-56

 * We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
 * This has also appeared in the alternate form: "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

 * The atoms in the philosophy of do not move merely by chance. Leucippus seems to have believed in complete determinism, since he is known to have said: "Naught happens for nothing, but everything from a ground and of necessity." The atomists did not give any reason for the original motion of the atoms, which just shows that they thought of a causal description of the atomic motion; causality can only explain later events by earlier events, but it can never explain the beginning.

 * In the philosophy of Democritus the atoms are eternal and indestructible units of matter, they can never be transformed into each other. With regard to this question modern physics takes a definite stand against the materialism of Democritus and for Plato and the Pythagoreans. The elementary particles are certainly not eternal and indestructible units of matter, they can actually be transformed into each other. As a matter of fact, if two such particles, moving through space with a very high kinetic energy, collide, then many new elementary particles may be created from the available energy and the old particles may have disappeared in the collision. Such events have been frequently observed and offer the best proof that all particles are made of the same substance: energy.

 * But the resemblance of the modern views to those of Plato and the Pythagoreans can be carried somewhat further. The elementary particles in Plato's Timaeus are finally not substance but mathematical forms. "All things are numbers" is a sentence attributed to Pythagoras. The only mathematical forms available at that time were such geometric forms as the regular solids or the triangles which form their surface. In modern quantum theory there can be no doubt that the elementary particles will finally also be mathematical forms but of a much more complicated nature.

 * The Greek philosophers thought of static forms and found them in the regular solids. Modern science, however, has from its beginning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries started from the dynamic problem. The constant element in physics since Newton is not a configuration or a geometrical form, but a dynamic law.

 * The equation of motion holds at all times, it is in this sense eternal, whereas the geometrical forms, like the orbits, are changing. Therefore, the mathematical forms that represent the elementary particles will be solutions of some eternal law of motion for matter. Actually this is a problem which has not yet been solved.

 * There is an enormous difference between modern science and Greek philosophy, and that is just the empiristic attitude... Since the time of Galileo and Newton, modern science has been based upon a detailed study of nature and upon the postulate that only such statements should be made, as have been verified or at least can be verified by experiment. The idea that one can single out some events from nature by an experiment... to find out what is the constant law in the continuous change, did not occur to the Greek philosophers. Therefore, modern science has from its beginning stood on a much more modest, but at the same time much firmer, basis than ancient philosophy. Therefore, the statements of modern physics are in some way meant much more seriously than the statements of Greek philosophy.

If one follows the great difficulty which even eminent scientists like Einstein had in understanding and accepting the Copenhagen interpretation... one can trace the roots... to the Cartesian partition....it will take a long time for it [this partition]  to be replaced by a really different attitude toward the problem of reality.'''
 * [I]n the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory we can indeed proceed without mentioning ourselves as individuals, but we cannot disregard the fact that natural science is formed by men. Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our nature of questioning. This was a possibility of which Descartes could not have thought, but '''it makes a sharp separation between the world and the I impossible.

The obvious difficulty in this argument '''is the lack of any general criterion as to when a sentence should be considered meaningless. A definite decision is possible only when the sentence belongs to a closed system of concepts and axioms, which in the development of natural science will be rather the exception than the rule.''' In some case the conjecture that a certain sentence is meaningless has historically led to important progress... new connections which would have been impossible if the sentence had a meaning. An example... sentence: "In which orbit does the electron move around the nucleus?" But generally the positivistic scheme taken from mathematical logic is too narrow in a description of nature which necessarily uses words and concepts that are only vaguely defined.
 * Modern positivism...expresses criticism against the naïve use of certain terms... by the general postulate that the question whether a given sentence has any meaning... should always be thoroughly and critically examined. This... is derived from mathematical logic. The procedure of natural science is pictured as an attachment of symbols to the phenomena. The symbols can, as in mathematics, be combined according to certain rules... However, a combination of symbols that does not comply with the rules is not wrong but conveys no meaning.

 * The words "position" and "velocity" of an electron... seemed perfectly well defined... and in fact they were clearly defined concepts within the mathematical framework of Newtonian mechanics. But actually they were not well defined, as seen from the relations of uncertainty. One may say that regarding their position in Newtonian mechanics they were well defined, but in their relation to nature, they were not. This shows that we can never know beforehand which limitations will be put on the applicability of certain concepts by the extension of our knowledge into the remote parts of nature, into which we can only penetrate with the most elaborate tools. Therefore, in the process of penetration we are bound sometimes to use our concepts in a way which is not justified and which carries no meaning. Insistence on the postulate of complete logical clarification would make science impossible. We are reminded... of the old wisdom that one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

 * The law of causality is no longer applied in quantum theory and the law of conservation of matter is no longer true for the elementary particles. Obviously Kant could not have foreseen the new discoveries, but since he was convinced that his concepts would be "the basis of any future metaphysics that can be called science" it is interesting to see where his arguments have been wrong.

 * Any concepts or words which have been formed in the past through the interplay between the world and ourselves are not really sharply defined with respect to their meaning: that is to say, we do not know exactly how far they will help us in finding our way in the world. We often know that they can be applied to a wide range of inner or outer experience, but we practically never know precisely the limits of their applicability. This is true even of the simplest and most general concepts like "existence" and "space and time". Therefore, it will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. The concepts may, however, be sharply defined with regard to their connections. This is actually the fact when the concepts become part of a system of axioms and definitions which can be expressed consistently by a mathematical scheme.  Such a group of connected concepts may be applicable to a wide field of experience and will help us to find our way in this field. But the limits of the applicability will in general not be known, at least not completely.

 * The way in which the convergent mathematical schemes did not fulfill the requirements of relativity and quantum theory was... interesting. ...[O]ne scheme ...interpreted in terms of actual events in space and time, led to a...time reversal... The physicists are convinced... that the processes... do not occur in nature... if... separated by measurable distance in space and time. ...If we assume that the laws of nature do contain a third universal constant... of the order of 10-13 cm, then... our usual concepts... apply only to regions in space and time that are large compared to the universal constant. We should... be prepared for phenomena of a qualitatively new character when we... approach regions... smaller than the nuclear radii. The phenomenon of time reversal... might therefore belong to these smallest regions.

 * [E]ven in the most precise part of sience, in mathematics, we cannot avoid using concepts that involve contradictions. ...[I]t is well known that the concept of infinity leads to contradictions... but it would be practically impossible to construct... mathematics without this concept.

 * The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

 * Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word "understanding."

 * The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to non-physicists who will not be satisfied unless some explanation is given in plain language. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be the criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

 * I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?

 * [U]ncomprimising belief carries much more weight than some special philosophical notions... [T]he great majority... can scarcely have any well-founded judgement concerning the correctness of certain important general ideas or doctrines. ...[T]he word "belief" can for this majority not mean "perceiving the truth of something" but... only... as "taking this as the basis for life." ...[T]his second kind of belief is much firmer... much more fixed... it can persist even against immediate contradicting experience... not... shaken by added scientific knowledge... sometimes... to the point where it seems completely absurd, and ends... only with the death of the believer. Science and history can teach us that this... may become a great danger... [S]uch belief has always belonged to the great forces in human history.

 * Cautious deliberation based on purely rational arguments can save us from many errors and dangers. ...But ...there will always be a fundamental complementarity between deliberation and decision. ...The decision finally... pushing away all the arguments... The decision may be the result of deliberation, but it is... complementary... it excludes deliberation. Even the most important decisions... contain this inevitable element of irrationality. ...[I]t cannot be avoided that some real or apparent truth form the basis of life; and this fact should be acknowledged with regard to those groups... whose basis is different from our own.

 * [F]rom all that has been said about modern science... modern physics is just one... but... characteristic, part of a general historical process... toward a unification and a widening of our... world. This... would... lead to a diminution of... cultural and political tensions that create the great danger... But... forces in the existing cultural communities... try to ensure for their traditional values the largest... role in the final state of unification... and thereby adds to the instability of the transient state. Modern physics... shows that the use of arms... would be disastrous, and... through it openness for all... concepts it raises the hope that in the final state of unification many different cultural traditions may live together and... combine different human endeavors into a new... balance between thought and deed, between activity and meditation.

Misattributed

 * Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
 * Sometimes attributed to Heisenberg, this was actually a statement made by Niels Bohr, as quoted in The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery (2000) by Abraham Pais, p. 24
 * Some things are so serious that one can only joke about them.
 * Variant without any citation as to author in Denial is not a river in Egypt (1998) by Sandi Bachom, p. 85

 * Reality is in the observations, not in the electron.
 * A summary of Heisenberg's view by Paul Davies in his introduction to Physics and Philosophy

 * I am the one who knocks.
 * A widely quoted statement by the character Walter White (a.k.a. "Heisenberg"), in the Cornered episode of Breaking Bad (21 August 2011), which people not familiar with the show might conceivably mistake for an attribution to the scientist.

 * The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for her.
 * “Der erste Trunk aus dem Becher der Naturwissenschaft macht atheistisch, aber auf dem Grund des Bechers wartet Gott.” in 15 Jahrhunderte Würzburg: e. Stadt u. ihre Geschichte [15 centuries Würzburg. A city and its history] (1979), p. 205, by Heinz Otremba. Otremba does not declare his source, and the quote per se cannot be found in Heisenberg's published works.
 * The journalist Eike Christian Hirsch PhD, a personal acquaintance of Heisenberg, whom he interviewed for his 1981 book Expedition in die Glaubenswelt, claimed in de.wikiquote.org on 22 June 2015, that the content and style of the quote was completely foreign to Heisenberg's convictions and the way he used to express himself, and that Heisenberg's children, Dr. Maria Hirsch and Prof. Dr. Martin Heisenberg, did not recognize their father in this quote.
 * Statements similar to the quote were made by Francis Bacon, in "Of Atheism" (1601): "A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion", and Alexander Pope, in "An Essay on Criticism" (1709): "A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."
 * There is a passage in a lengthy essay written by Heisenberg in 1942, "Ordnung der Wirklichkeit” ("Reality and Its Order"), published in Collected Works. Section C: Philosophical and Popular Writings. Volume I. Physics and Cognition. 1927-1955 (1984), that parallels the ideas expressed in the quote (albeit in a much expanded form):
 * "The first thing we could say was simply: 'I believe in God, the Father, the almighty creator of heaven and earth.' The next step — at least for our contemporary consciousness — was doubt.  There is no god; there is only an impersonal law that directs the fate of the world according to cause and effect... And yet [today], we may with full confidence place ourselves into the hands of the higher power who, during our lifetime and in the course of the centuries, determines our faith and therewith our world and our fate."  (English translation by M.B.Rumscheidt and N. Lukens, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20170201051620/http://www.heisenbergfamily.org/t-OdW-english.htm)
 * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, a protégé of Heisenberg, did publish a version of the quote itself in Die Geschichte der Natur (The History of Nature) (1948), appearing to consider it an adage:
 * "Aus dem Denken gibt es keinen ehrlichen Rückweg in einen naiven Glauben. Nach einem alten Satz trennt uns der erste Schluck aus dem Becher der Erkenntnis von Gott, aber auf dem Grunde des Bechers wartet Gott auf den, der ihn sucht. Wenn es so ist, dann gibt es einen Weg des Denkens, der vorwärts zu religiösen Wahrheiten führt, und nur diesen Weg zu suchen ist lohnend. Wenn es nicht so ist, wird unsere Welt auf die Religion ihre Hoffnungen vergeblich setzen." ("From thinking there is no honest way back into a naive belief. According to an old phrase, the first sip from the cup of knowledge separates us from God, but at the bottom of the cup God is waiting for the one who seeks him. If so, then there is a way of thinking that leads to religious truths, and to seek only that way is rewarding. If it is not so, our world will put its hopes to religion in vain.")

Quotes about Heisenberg

 * Heisenberg's name will always be associated with his theory of quantum mechanics, published in 1925, when he was only 23 years old. For this theory and the applications of it which resulted especially in the discovery of allotropic forms of hydrogen, Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932. His new theory was based only on what can be observed, that is to say, on the radiation emitted by the atom. We cannot, he said, always assign to an electron a position in space at a given time, nor follow it in its orbit, so that we cannot assume that the planetary orbits postulated by Niels Bohr actually exist. Mechanical quantities, such as position, velocity, etc. should be represented, not by ordinary numbers, but by abstract mathematical structures called "matrices" and he formulated his new theory in terms of matrix equations.
 * Official Biography at the Nobel Prize site, from Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941 (1965)

 * When he arrived he looked like a simple peasant boy, with short, fair hair, clear bright eyes and a charming expression. He took his duties as an assistant more seriously than Pauli and was a great help to me. His incredible quickness and acuteness of apprehension has always enabled him to do a colossal amount of work without much effort; he finished his hydrodynamic thesis, worked on atomic problems partly alone, partly in collaboration with me, and helped me to direct my research students.
 * Max Born, My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate (1978), p. 212

 * In 1929, Heisenberg  spent  some  time  in  India  as  the  guest of  the  celebrated  Indian  poet  Rabindranath  Tagore,  with  whom he  had  long  conversations  about  science  and  Indian  philosophy. This  introduction  to  Indian  thought  brought  Heisenberg  great comfort,  he  told  me.  He  began to  see  that  the  recognition  of  relativity,  interconnectedness,  and  impermanence  as  fundamental aspects  of  physical  reality,  which  had  been  so  difficult  for  himself  and  his  fellow  physicists,  was  the  very  basis  of  the  Indian spiritual  traditions. “After  these  conversations  with  Tagore,” he said, “some  of  the  ideas  that  had  seemed  so  crazy  suddenly made much more sense. That was a great help for me.”
 * Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom, 1988, p.43

 * We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from the another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take our breath away. Come... dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg. Come, dry your eyes. And let's go home.
 * Alan Moore, in lines for "Doctor Manhattan" in Watchmen (1987)

 * Heisenberg in cattedra / spiegava il Principio di indeterminazione / a una platea di eletti (a Villa Monastero di Varenna). / In un angolo Fermi e Dirac / si guardarono un attimo sbigottiti / poi si scambiarono brevi formule / scritte sui palmi delle mani
 * Heisenberg in the chair / explained the Uncertainty Principle / to an audience of elected officials (at Villa Monastero in Varenna). / In a corner Fermi and Dirac / they looked at each other in amazement / then they exchanged brief formulas / written on the palms of their hands
 * Leonardo Sinisgalli

 * In 1925, the world view of physics was a model of a great machine composed of separable interacting material particles. During the next few years, Schrodinger and Heisenberg and their followers created a universe based on superimposed inseparable waves of probability amplitudes. This new view would be entirely consistent with the Vedantic concept of All in One.
 * Walter J. Moore in Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989) ISBN 0521437679

 * From 1946 onward, as Germany's leading physicist, he had two disappointments. His efforts to bring scientists into government failed, and his scientific work, offering suggestions for a new unified field theory, was not generally accepted.
 * Nevill Francis Mott,

 * J. Robert Oppenheimer: You're talking about turning theory into a practical weapons system faster than the Nazis. Leslie Groves: Who have a twelve month head start. J. Robert Oppenheimer: Eighteen. Leslie Groves: How could you possibly know that? J. Robert Oppenheimer: Our fast neutron research took six months. The man they've undoubtedly put in charge will have made that leap instantly. Leslie Groves: Who do you think they put in charge? J. Robert Oppenheimer: Werner Heisenberg. He has the most intuitive understanding of atomic structure I've ever seen.  Leslie Groves: You know his work? J. Robert Oppenheimer: I know him. Just like I know Walter Bothe, von Weizsäcker, Diebner... In a straight race, the Germans win. We've got one hope. Leslie Groves: Which is? J. Robert Oppenheimer: Antisemitism. Leslie Groves: What? J. Robert Oppenheimer: Hitler called quantum physics "Jewish science", said it right to Einstein's face. Our one hope is that Hitler is so, so blinded by hate that he's denied Heisenberg proper resources, because it'll take vast resources.
 * Oppenheimer, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, as interpreted by Matt Damon and Cillian Murphy

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D.O.A. (1950 film)

D.O.A. is a 1950 American film noir about a businessman who is told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, and tries to find out who killed him and why.
 * Directed by Rudolph Maté. Written by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene, based on the play Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht by Ernst Neubach.

A picture as excitingly different as its title!

Frank Bigelow

 * [After being told his grim prognosis] Do you realize what you're saying? You're telling me that I'm dead!

 * You knew who I was when I came here today. But you were surprised to see me alive, weren't you? But I'm not alive, Mrs. Philips. Sure, I can stand here and talk to you. I can breathe and I can move. But I'm not alive. Because I did take that poison, and nothing can save me.

 * But you don't know what it can do to two people, Paula, and the woman always gets hurt more than the man.

Paula Gibson

 * I told him I was your confidential secretary, but I guess I didn't sound confidential enough.

 * Maybe you do need this week away alone. Maybe we both do. I know what's going on inside of you, Frank. You're just like any other man, only a little more so. You have a feeling of being trapped, hemmed in, and you don't know whether or not you like it.

Other

 * Majak: He's not afraid. You can tell from a man's eyes when he is afraid. Look at his eyes.

 * Chester: That's the way I wanna see you go, Bigelow... nice and slow.

Dialogue

 * Homicide Detective: Can I help you?
 * Frank Bigelow: I'd like to see the man in charge.
 * Detective: In here...
 * Frank Bigelow: I want to report a murder.
 * Homicide Captain: Sit down. Where was this murder committed?
 * Frank Bigelow: San Francisco, last night.
 * Captain: Who was murdered?
 * Frank Bigelow: I was.

 * Frank Bigelow: Give it to me straight, doctor!
 * Dr. MacDonald: Well, a number of things are involved, the systemic condition of the individual, the amount consumed...
 * Frank Bigelow: Yes?
 * Dr. MacDonald: You won't feel too badly for a while. Then it will happen suddenly. A day, two days... a week at the most.
 * Frank Bigelow: [in a daze] A day... Two days...
 * Dr. MacDonald: There's nothing that can be done now. If it had been caught in time, your stomach could have been washed out. But you've had it in you for some time now... for at least twelve hours, haven't you, Bigelow?
 * Frank Bigelow: I don't know.
 * Dr. MacDonald: [surprised] You don't know?
 * Frank Bigelow: No!
 * Dr. MacDonald: Don't you know how you got it?
 * Frank Bigelow: No!
 * Dr. MacDonald: Then this is no accident. Somebody knew how to handle that stuff. That wax is tasteless and odorless, and the amount of alcohol in your body, you must have got it in liquor.
 * Frank Bigelow: I was drinking last night.
 * Dr. MacDonald: I'll arrange for your admission to the hospital immediately. Of course, I'll have to notify the police. This is a case for Homicide.
 * Frank Bigelow: Homicide?
 * Dr. MacDonald: I don't think you fully understand, Bigelow. You've been murdered.

 * Frank Bigelow: Forget the bills. You know that coat you want? Get it.
 * Paula Gibson: You are drunk.

 * Paula Gibson: Frank, I don't know how to say this.
 * Frank Bigelow: Say what?
 * Paula Gibson: Well, what I want to say is that there's nothing you can do that you ever have to feel guilty about.

 * Frank Bigelow: Who's the blonde?
 * Eddie: Oh she's one of the chicks that hang around here; she's jive crazy.

 * Frank Bigelow: [about Reynolds] You're mighty careful about the picture of a man you haven't heard from in months. [about a signature on the photo] What does the 'Ray' stand for?
 * Marla Rakubian: It was a pet name. Do you mind?
 * Frank Bigelow: It all sounds very cozy, Miss Rakubian. You and Reynolds call each other pet names while you make a sucker out of Philips.
 * Marla Rakubian: Philips made the deal because he wanted it.
 * Frank Bigelow: Yeah, I'll bet you weren't above using what it takes to make him want it. Who's paying for this trip?
 * Marla Rakubian: I am.
 * Frank Bigelow: Really? A first class trip to Buenos Aires on a model's salary? Don't make me laugh. Since you and Reynolds won't be seeing each other anymore, you don't mind if I keep this, do you?
 * [He folds the photo and puts it in his inside suit pocket]
 * Marla Rakubian: If I were a man, I'd punch your dirty face in.
 * Frank Bigelow: You know I really believe you would.

 * [After Bigelow dies]
 * Deputy: How shall I make out the report on him, Captain?
 * Captain: Better make it dead on arrival.

Cast

 * Edmond O'Brien - Frank Bigelow
 * Pamela Britton - Paula Gibson
 * Luther Adler - Majak
 * Lynn Baggett - Mrs. Philips
 * William Ching - Halliday
 * Henry Hart - Stanley Philips
 * Beverly Garland - Miss Foster
 * Neville Brand - Chester
 * Laurette Luez - Marla Rakubian

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--Aphaia 15:03, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

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Air Force One (film)

Air Force One is a 1997 action movie in which a group of terrorists take the President of the United States hostage aboard his private jet.
 * Directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Andrew W. Marlow.

'''Impenetrable. Invincible. In Trouble.''' Taglines

President James Marshall

 * [in Russian, addressing state dinner in Moscow] The dead remember our indifference; the dead remember our silence. [turns back to English] I came here tonight to be congratulated. But today, when I visited the Red Cross camps, overwhelmed by the flood of refugees fleeing the horror of Kazakhstan, I realize I don't deserve to be congratulated. None of us do. The truth is we acted too late. Only when our own national security was threatened did we act. Radek's regime murdered over 200,000 men, women and children and we watched it on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered for over a year and we issued economic sanctions and hid behind the rhetoric of diplomacy. How dare we. The dead remembered: real peace is not just the absence of conflict, it's the presence of justice. And tonight I come to you with a pledge to change America's policy. Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons, and to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.

 * [to a subdued Korshunov] Get off my plane!

Egor Korshunov

 * When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers, AND his baseball glove!

 * More time? [shoots National Security Advisor] Your national security advisor has just been executed. He's a very good negotiator. He bought you another half-hour.

Dialogue

 * Air Force General: [After hearing the president ordering them to fire on Air Force One] My God! Is he saying what I think he's saying?
 * Vice-President Kathryn Bennett: If we're going to act, we have to act now.
 * Defense Secretary Walter Dean: It's too risky.
 * Bennett: The president is up there with a gun to his head!
 * General Northwood: [sulks in his chair] He's asking us to do that? To Air Force One?!
 * Bennett: He's not asking. Your commander-in-chief has issued a direct order. [leans forward to the general] DO IT!

 * Vice-President Kathryn Bennett: What are your intentions?
 * Egor Korshunov: What arrogance to think you could ever understand my intentions.
 * Bennett: I want to understand what it is that you want.
 * Korshunov: What do I want...When Mother Russia becomes one great nation again, when the capitalists are dragged from the Kremlin and then shot in the street, when our enemies run and hide in fear at the mention of our name, and when America begs our forgiveness...on that great day of deliverance, you will know what I want.

 * Egor Korshunov: Madam Vice-President, the time has come for you to show your good faith. I've read your press kits. I understand Air Force One is able to refuel in midair. Well, we need fuel and we need it now.
 * Vice-President Kathryn Bennett: I'm sure we can come to some kind of arrangement. If you land the plane, we'll trade fuel for hostages-
 * Korshunov: This is bullshit! It's simple physics. Without fuel, the plane crashes, everybody dies!
 * Bennett: We're trying to do everything that we can-
 * Korshunov: [Angrily] Tell me what I want to hear or I will execute a member of the senior staff and continue killing one hostage every minute until the plane crash or refueling plane arrive! [Calmly] Well, what do you say?
 * Bennett: Fuel's on its way.
 * Korshunov: [Politely] Thank you.

 * F-15 Pilot: Sir, pull up! You've got one on your tail.
 * President James Marshall: Get him off my tail!
 * F-15 Pilot: Missile away. Air Force One, break left and climb!
 * Major Caldwell: Sir, we've lost countermeasures!
 * F-15 Pilot: This is Halo-2. They've lost countermeasures. I'm going in. [Takes the missile for Air Force One]

 * [President Marshall is stunned about Agent Gibbs killing his men]
 * Secret Service Agent Gibbs: Give me the strap!
 * President James Marshall: I trusted you with my life!
 * Secret Service Agent Gibbs: So will the next president! [gestures about safety line] Now give it to me!

 * Liberty Two-Four Pilot: Blue Star... Air Force One is down. I repeat, Air Force One is down!
 * Control Room [Blue Star]: Liberty Two-Four, do you have the president?
 * [static as Liberty Two-Four crew gradually winches Marshall]
 * Control Room [Blue Star]: Liberty, DO YOU HAVE THE PRESIDENT?
 * Liberty Two-Four Pilot: Standby...
 * [President Marshall is grabbed off the line and taken on board]
 * Liberty Two-Four crewman: Hang on... WE GOT HIM!!
 * Liberty Two-Four Pilot: Liberty Two-Four is changing call signs, Liberty Two-Four is now Air Force One! [everybody cheers]
 * Liberty Two-Four crewman: [at attention, salutes with the rest of the crew] Mr President. Welcome aboard, sir! [Marshall returns salute]

Taglines

 * Impenetrable. Invincible. In Trouble.

 * The fate of a nation rests on the courage of one man.

 * The most important man, the surest airplane, the most dangerous hijackers...

 * Family Man. Commander-In-Chief. National Hero...Any title worth having is never given. It's earned.

 * Harrison Ford is the President of the United States

Cast

 * Harrison Ford - President James Marshall
 * Gary Oldman - Egor Korshunov
 * Glenn Close - Vice-President Kathryn Bennett
 * Bill Smitrovich - General Northwood
 * Wendy Crewson - First Lady Grace Marshall
 * Liesel Matthews - First Daughter Alice Marshall
 * Paul Guilfoyle - Chief of Staff Lloyd 'Shep' Shepherd
 * Xander Berkeley - Secret Service Agent Gibbs
 * William H. Macy - Major Caldwell
 * Dean Stockwell - Defense Secretary Walter Dean
 * Tom Everett - National Security Advisor Jack Doherty
 * Jürgen Prochnow - General Ivan Radek
 * Donna Bullock - Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchell

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User:OlegPopov~enwikiquote

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World Intellectual Property Organization

The World Intellectual Property Organization is a specialised agency of the United Nations. The World Intellectual Property Organization was created in 1967 to encourage creative activity and to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world.

Quotes

 * How did we get here [with complex and restrictive copyright laws]? Well, it starts with an organization called WIPO, which is for copyright what Mordor is for evil in Middle Earth.
 * Cory Doctorow, Digital and Social Conference, Berlin, Norway, November 12, 2004


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Talk:8-Bit Theater

Question about Citations
I like how the latest 8-Bit Theater page consolidates all of the quotes into just episodes, rather than into separate sections for each character. Kudos to the person who did that.

However, I don't like the spelled-out citations at the end of every episode quote. Even though doing so probably took a lot of time and research on the part of the editor, I feel that the citations are distracting and extend the article too much. Would anyone object if I reduced each spelled-out citation to its original, less conspicuous form?

On another note, I want to add a few comic screenshots in order to make the page more visually appealing. I'm unfamiliar, though, with whatever copyrighted image system Wikis have in place nowadays. Could someone point me in the right direction in terms of image posting?

--66.194.217.221 17:00, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Inquiry
Is it me, or are the vast majority of these quotes from the earliest part of the comic or the last fifty? And are a lot of them not even funny and rather dependent upon the visuals that go with them in the comic itself?

...methinkst I'll return at some point soon to overhaul this page.

cool quotes
The quotes were great! They reminded me of some good times! They do tend to be at either the beginning or the end of the series, but they are definitely good ones.

Proofread, dammit!
Ok, when you people add stuff ("you" is a general term here) proofread it, dammit! I'm aware that not too many people are going to see this, but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway. (by Suzuki)

 * Telling people what to do on a volunteer site is unlikely to produce results. Those who care about the quality of specific pages fix what problems they find: this is how wiki works. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 15:33, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Preparing to clean up
Hello everyone. In preparation of cleaning up this page, I've started with giving a link from each quotation to the relevant strip. Feel free to help! ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:53, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it would be good to make the page like The Order of the Stick. I'll try to find time to do it, but if someone does it before me, I won't be mad :)

Listen, I love the comic, but...
This article is WAY too long. It seems like there's a quote from every episode...is there?

If only there was some way that we could only put in quotes that mattered. -Cat's Tuxedo

I kinda revamped the page to kinda get started. I'll update more later. Cat's Tuxedo 19:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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Out Cold (2001 film)

Out Cold is a 2001 film about a snowboarder whose plans for his own snowboard park go awry when an ex-girlfriend returns to town.
 * Directed by The Malloys. Written by Jon Zack.

They Haven't Quite Figured It All Out, But They're Getting A Little Warmer. (taglines)

Anthony

 * [girl in bed with him farts on him] Oh, no you didn't.
 * Welcome to el Matador, Spanish for, The Matador.

Pig Pen

 * I'm gonna need a bucket, a paint brush and 10 pounds of salt. Lance.  Get his pants.
 * I don't have to take a test to tell you that I take drugs.
 * Carpe the Diem. Seize The Carp.

Luke

 * Can you get an STD from a polar bear?
 * Maybe we should clarify something. When you won the race last night, that made you king of the mountain.  Not king of the no-ball-pussy-losers.  They already have their own king.  My brother.
 * No regrets, that's my motto. Well... that and everybody Wang Chung tonight.
 * This suit is really cramping my Hardy Boys. It's no mystery.
 * Well, yeah it doesn't really allow my dice to roll and by dice I mean testicles. Speaking of testicles, let me get a beer.
 * [drunk] There you are, I've been looking for you, come inside, you look so beautiful and I wanted to see if you wanted to dance. [Anna walks up] Not you, him and his white tuxedo.
 * [Pig Pen wakes up from humping a bench in his sleep] He's had a crush on that bench for years....Did you enjoy your nap?
 * You know I hate what they're doing to the mountain, but this is the best vanilla latte I have ever had. You can actually taste the vanilla beans... I don't like the coffee.
 * [punches Pig Pen] A little sensitivity here. Can't you see this is a dejected man? Now Rick, get your dejected head out of your ass. Papa Muntz wanted you to run this mountain.

Stumpy

 * I was there. Yeah, it was called the '80s. Ford was President, Nixon was in the White House and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-a-wall town in what is now called Utah. Some fella from Colorado shows up, starts making so called "improvements", right? Before we knew what hit us, the streets are running with latte's. It got so bad that a fella that liked to, you know... smoke a little grass or drink a little ripple. Crow like a rooster, maybe challenge the mayor's son to a gentlemen's duel, was "uncouth, against God." More like bad real estate values. Stumpy had to go!
 * Did I ever tell you about the time I invented snowboarding? Ya I don't want credit for it but they keep on giving it to me...

Dialogue

 * Jenny: I seriously think it's time for you to move on and stop this broken-heart stuff.
 * Rick: All right. So... you wanna hook up?
 * Jenny: You're gonna have to try a lot harder than that, Rick.
 * Rick: [pause, lower] Soooo... ya still wanna hook up? [Jenny laughs]

 * Jenny: Are you sniffing me?
 * Lance: Oh man, if I was her I'd be getting with every dude on this mountain.

 * Luke: Rule number one. You do not talk about king of the mountain. Rule number two. There are no rules.
 * Anthony: Uhh...what about rule number one?
 * Luke: That's more of a guideline than a rule. Do NOT interrupt.

 * Rick: And as an added bonus you also win the contents of Eric's stolen wallet. Which are Luke...?
 * Luke: Two bucks, Condom, ...expiration date 1997. And a picture of his grandmoth- ...nope that's uh ...Nancy Reagan.
 * Rick: And most importantly, pushing, shoving and cheating are encouraged.

 * Luke: Let's go have a drink everybody.
 * Rick: Actually I have to turn in. I have to give Mr. Mays a snowboarding lesson.
 * Luke: Yeah I've got fag practice in the morning so I understand.

 * Pig Pen: Here's what I don't get alright is you met this chick and you got all freaky-deaky with her and then poof she disappeared. How's there a problem with that.
 * Rick: Pig Pen when I want advice about a good planet of the apes film or maybe how to get the resin out of my bong I'll come to you, okay? But I am not going to take romantic advice from someone who can't spell romantic or advice. Or bong.

 * Lance: Hey. Hot sluts with tits.
 * Rick: You don't have to do that anymore, remember?
 * Lance: Oh yeah. Sorry. Old habits die hard. Oh what the hell - I LOVE MEN. Who wants me?
 * Rick: Lance you don't have to do that either...

 * Rick: You're pretty good with these kids. They seem to like you.
 * Jenny: Well, I seem to have experience dealing with immature boys.
 * Rick: Ouch.

 * Eric Montclare: Luke, why don't you shut up before my fist makes an appointment with your ass?
 * Luke: Eric, do you notice you're always talking about sticking something in my ass, and that time it wasn't even a threat, technically, that was flirting.

 * Pig Pen: Snownook's not our home, Bull Mountain's our home.
 * Anthony: Well technically, it belonged to the Eskimos, but we stole it fair and square.

 * Stumpy: Rick! I'm your father!
 * Rick: Ok whatever!

 * Inga: Tell me where did you get these scars?
 * Luke: Oh lets see. Skateboard, truck accident, and a fire hydrant.
 * Inga: I bet each one has its own exciting story, no?
 * Luke: No, not really. I skateboarded off a truck into a fire hydrant.
 * Inga: I never met an American boy before, are you all so, wild?
 * Luke: Yeah, we have a saying around here, "no brains, no headache."
 * Inga: We have saying in Switzerland too, "no swimsuit, no tan lines."
 * Luke: [Looking towards the sky] [whispers] Thank you.
 * Luke: We have another saying around here.
 * Inga: Uh huh, what's that?
 * Luke: I don't know.

 * Pig Pen: [shouts] So, are you like a crippled guy?
 * Barry: [shouts] Naw, I'm just a really lazy guy!

 * Doorman: Get outta here!
 * Pig Pen: I'm gonna take Kung-Fu and kick your friggen ass! We'll have the party at our place... We don't need their fancy-smancy shit and their blue ropes!

[Pig Pen and Anthony run back to the door and steal the blue ropes]

Cast

 * Jason London as Rick Rambis
 * Lee Majors as John Majors
 * Willie Garson as Ted Muntz
 * Zach Galifianakis as Luke
 * David Koechner as Stumpy
 * Flex Alexander as Anthony
 * A.J. Cook as Jenny
 * David Denman as Lance
 * Caroline Dhavernas as Anna
 * Derek Hamilton as Pig Pen
 * Thomas Lennon as Eric Montclare
 * Victoria Silvstedt as Inga
 * Todd Richards as Barry
 * Lewis Arquette as Herbert 'Papa' Muntz

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Lost Highway (film)

Lost Highway is a 1997 psychological thriller about a jazz saxophonist who, after a bizarre encounter at a party, is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.
 * Directed and written by David Lynch.

Mr. Eddie

 * This is where mechanical excellence and 1,400 horsepower pays off.
 * Boy, that's smooth. Smooth as shit off a duck's ass!
 * [while beating a tailgater] Don't tailgate! Don't you ever tailgate! Do you know how much space is needed to stop a car traveling at 35 miles per hour? Six car lengths! Six fuckin' car lengths! That's a hundred and six fuckin' feet, mister! If I had to stop suddenly, you woulda hit me! I want you to get a fuckin' driver's manual, and I want you to study that motherfucker! And I want you to obey the the goddamn rules of the road! Fifty-fuckin' thousand people were killed on the highways last year 'cause of fuckin' assholes like you! Tell me you're gonna get a manual!
 * You and me, mister, we can sure out-ugly them sumbitches, can't we?

Fred

 * Dick Laurent is dead...

Dialogue

 * [The police speak to Fred on the subject of video cameras]
 * Fred I like to remember things my own way
 * Detective What do you mean by that?
 * Fred How I remember them. Not necessarily the way they happened

 * Mystery Man: We've met before, haven't we?
 * Fred: I don't think so. Where was it you think we met?
 * Mystery Man: At your house. Don't you remember?
 * Fred: No. No, I don't. Are you sure?
 * Mystery Man: Of course. As a matter of fact, I'm there right now.
 * Fred: What do you mean? You're where right now?
 * Mystery Man: At your house.
 * Fred: [pause] That's fucking crazy, man.
 * Mystery Man: Call Me. Dial your number. Go ahead.
 * [Fred dials the number and the Mystery Man answers]
 * Mystery Man: [over the phone] I told you I was here.
 * Fred: [alarmed] How'd you do that?
 * Mystery Man: Ask me.
 * Fred: [angrily into the phone] How did you get inside my house?
 * Mystery Man: You invited me. It is not my custom to go where I am not wanted.
 * Fred: [into the phone] Who are you?
 * [Both Mystery Men laugh]
 * Mystery Man: [over the phone] Give me back my phone.
 * [Fred gives the phone back]
 * Mystery Man: It's been a pleasure talking to you.

 * Mr. Eddy: You like pornos?
 * Pete: Pornos?
 * Mr. Eddy: Give you a boner?
 * Pete: No thanks, Mr Eddy
 * Mr. Eddy: Suit yourself, champ

 * [Mr. Eddy calls Pete]
 * Mr. Eddy: I'm really glad to know you're doin okay. You're sure you're okay? Everything alright?
 * Pete Dayton: [nervous] Yeah?
 * Mr. Eddy: I'm really glad to know you're doin good, Pete. Hey, I want you to talk to a friend of mine.
 * [He hands the phone to the Mystery Man]
 * Mystery Man: We've met before, haven't we?
 * Pete Dayton: I don't think so. Where is it you think we've met?
 * Mystery Man: At your house. Don't you remember?
 * Pete Dayton: No. No, I don't.
 * Mystery Man: In the East, the Far East, when a person is sentenced to death, they're sent to a place where they can't escape, never knowing when an executioner may step up behind them, and fire a bullet into the back of their head.
 * Pete Dayton: [scared] What's going on?
 * Mystery Man: It's been a pleasure talking to you.

 * [Pete and Alice are having sex]
 * Pete: I want you!
 * Alice: [whispers in his ear] You'll never have me.

 * Fred Madison: Where's Alice?
 * Mystery Man: Alice who? Her name is Renee. If she's told you her name is Alice, she's lying. [shouts] And your name? What the fuck is your name?

 * Al: Do you know what I think?
 * Ed: What is it? What is it that you think?
 * Al: There is no such thing as a bad coincidence.

Cast

 * - Fred Madison
 * - Renee Madison/Alice Wakefield
 * - Pete Dayton
 * - Mr. Eddy/Dick Laurent
 * - The Mystery Man
 * - Bill Dayton, Pete's father
 * Lucy Butler - Candace Dayton, Pete's mother
 * - Andy
 * Richard Pryor - Arnie
 * - Sheila
 * - Al
 * - Ed
 * - Phil, a mechanic
 * - Teddy
 * Al Garrett - Carl
 * - Steve "V"
 * Henry Rollins - Guard Henry
 * as Guard Mike
 * (voice only) - Forewoman
 * Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez - porn stars

title: Lost Highway (film)