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Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan (born 2 November 1965) is a Bollywood actor, producer and a television personality. He is popularly known as king khan or badshah

Quotes On Celebrities
] I've known you since the time you started, I'm very fond of you...I love you! We've done different kinds of roles together. Chalte Chalte I think was very interesting, KKHH was interesting because you had just started out...It's wonderful to see you evolve as an actor over the years and personally I do believe that Rani Mukerji is the best actress in the country in the last 16 years.
 * Rani Mukerji
 * [When speaking to Rani in a stadium
 * Rani has looked her career best in Paheli. For myself, Aziz and Juhi; Rani is the only leading lady for our production house. She is the best actress we have had in I'd say the past 16 years!
 * Very few people know this. Now that she's successful, I can take credit for it. I spotted Rani in the promo of her first film and recommended her to Karan for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. I insisted that he at least meet Rani and when he did, he wasn't impressed. He wanted someone taller and Western looking. After much deliberation, he decided to try her out. They straightened her hair, did her make up and gave her a mini-skirt for the KMG song. That's where it all started. When I first saw her dancing, I realised she's a better dancer than me. She looked fantastic when she walks in with that guitar in the song!
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm
 * Right from the start, director Aziz Mirza wanted Rani. She heard a full narration of the script before me. But she was doing what she thought was a similar film [Saathiya]. Though I had worked with her in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, I had never done a full-fledged role with her. She began her career with me in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. She was supposed to do Dil Se with me as well. Chalte Chalte has given her a role worthy of her talent.
 * Rani Mukerji has the most beautiful eyes in the world.
 * [On the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai role] And Rani was so outstandingly beautiful. I saw her on television in a trailer of Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat. And I thought she had the most stunning face I'd seen. And I said [to Karan] why don't you ask Rani to do it?
 * http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnfACV5ZUI.

Quotes On Films

 * Paheli
 * [On its Oscar entry]It was very shocking for me because a movie called Black had released and I was working with Rani for a movie called Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. It was New York, very cold, raining, and Rani came running, saying, "Shah, Shah, we got nominated, we got nominated!" And I thought she was talking about Black-and Rani's very close to me, one of my best, bestest friends- and she came and hugged me and I said congratulations because one thought she was talking about Black. Because Paheli hadn't fared very well commercially, though it was very close to my heart. Suddenly she said, "No, no, no, Paheli has won!" And everyone -Karan [Johar] was there- said, "No, no don't joke, don't hurt him like this." And we were really shocked.
 * http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=m-ch-vid&v=l0dLyjo2lNA

From interview with Malavika Sangghvi
Quotes from an interview with Malavika Sangghvi, Times Life, Sunday Times of India (dated January 2, 2005). [1 ]

 * Don't be negative. It shows on your face.
 * I am like a Rolls Royce which can run without an engine, just on reputation.
 * I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.
 * I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don't understand her accent - I will go hungry for the entire flight.
 * I don't sit around complaining about the lack of good roles. I will play Raj 85 times and still make him different.
 * I think if you take sexuality very seriously it becomes very oily.
 * If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
 * Often I don't say hello to people for fear that they may not remember me.
 * You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.

From interview with Rajeev Masand
Quotes from an interview with Rajeev Masand, CNN-IBN (dated October 22, 2007).[2 ]

 * There is no alternative to work. I find nothing nicer than working. MK tells me that I am a workaholic. If I don’t work I get a headache and I feel depressed. I like to work round the clock all the time.
 * On some rare occasions I do go to cinema theatres abroad. But if you really ask me I would rather watch a film on DVD all alone in the dark environs of my car or my home.
 * It has varied. I don’t know if it’s good or bad but a dear friend of mine Aziz (Mirza) asked me not to do Don. I was also told to cut my hair and to change my name because someone said that there couldn’t be a movie star by the name of Shah Rukh Khan. (when asked the worst piece of professional advice that someone has given him)
 * Recently somebody asked me if I’m still in touch with my feminine side. They ask me why did I do the Lux ad and things like that. I think there is a feminine side to me, as people like to assume.
 * It makes it easier to get happiness. I do believe in a material world to a certain extent. I think material happiness is quite an important step before you look for spiritual happiness. There are people who think the other way round. They might also be right. But in the kind of education and the world where I have grown up, and we all are growing up, a certain level of consumerism become a reality. (as an answer to the question: Do you think that money can buy happiness?)
 * I never yell at kids. I just hug them hard and threaten them not to do something again. I would never be aggressive with a woman or a little child. I would rather die before I raise hand on a little kid or a lady.
 * I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father’s name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star’s children.

From interview with David Light
Quotes from an interview with David Light, Khaleej Times (dated December 11, 2011).[3 ]

 * When I get up in the morning and have to go to work and jump off things that may be quite dangerous, the payback isn’t the bigger car, but it’s that someone somewhere will smile a lot.
 * Making a movie has to be artistic. You have to look back and say, ‘I did this because I had fun.’
 * I’m completely ordinary.
 * I don’t sit down with the scripts. As long as I like the people I’m working with that’s enough for me.
 * I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.
 * Actually another thing that keeps me going in the industry is trying to do a film that impresses [his kids].
 * I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star.
 * Hero is a misnomer. India is the only place left in the world where we call our stars heroes and heroines.
 * As long as the women I’m romancing are happy with me doing it then I’ll carry on.

From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi
Quotes from an interview with Anshul Chaturvedi, Times Of India (dated November 6, 2011).[4 ]

 * Successful people do things, and get over with it, and leave others to live their life off it. I DO them. And then I leave it to others to live their life off it.
 * It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.
 * That if you want to be famous, you take your dad's name. And I said the only persons I don't want to be famous by taking my name are [Aryan, his son] and [Suhana, his daughter]. Let the rest of the world do that.
 * Sometimes I don't want to dignify things with answers. And it takes a huge amount of self-restraint, patience, control, and love for your own family, to keep quiet. And dignity, and perhaps the status that I have in the eyes of the people.
 * Success makes people - people not related to you or to your field - like to take a dig at you.
 * I think I invoke radical passions in people - and that is why I am such a big star!
 * I've become a free-for-all brand. I hope they come out with a rule that they can't use a person's name without paying him for it!

From interview with Subhash K. Jha
Quotes from an interview with Subhash K. Jha, Times Of India (dated February 1, 2004).[5 ]

 * The audience's preferences for films are in black and white. They either like a film or they don't.
 * I've been there, done it all. I'm very clear about my priorities as an entertainer. I want the audience to feel good when they watch me. That's what I'm paid for. Why should I sell anything else?
 * I don't think I've achieved superstardom. One has to achieve much more. My next level is the next shot I do. When I see some of my shots, I wonder why I did them so badly. Audiences and critics don't know about these shots. But I know. These moments remain very personal.
 * I feel very strongly about souls who are misguiding people in the name of religion.

From interview with Komal Nahta
Quotes from an interview with Komal Nahta, Rediff (dated January 13, 2000). [6 ]

 * I only hope that people enjoy viewing the film I’ve enjoyed making. I don’t know whether the film we’ve made is commercial or not, whether it’s good or not, but I do know that we’ve made it honestly and that we've enjoyed making it. I just hope it has turned out to be the film we had set out to make.
 * My biggest enemy, incidentally, is my ‘next time.’ I’m neither being immodest when I say that my next will be even better nor am I being humble when I say that this is less than what my next film will be.
 * If money-making was my aim, I could have done two ad films or shows and earned the same amount of money -- probably more -- in just two or four days.
 * A person must buy my film only if he feels good about it, not otherwise.
 * I don’t normally comment about my own films. But my judgment of films is excellent, it is better than yours.
 * After all, what is a film? It is selling of a dream. We have to tell lies to people, we have to sell them dreams.
 * I bring excitement on the sets. I’m an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I’m not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I never lose hope. If I feel that a film is going wrong somewhere, I do even better.
 * My films do well only because they are good, not because of me.
 * Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.
 * Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world.
 * I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don’t assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don’t get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.
 * I take care not to remind my audience that I am Shah Rukh Khan. The better thing to do is to hold a mirror for them and to tell them, ‘This is you.’
 * I am popular for all that I’ve done on the screen. That is why I’m never ashamed of what I’ve done in front of the camera, nor am I extra-proud of what I’ve done.

From interview with Pratim D. Gupta
Quotes from an interview with Pratim D. Gupta (dated September 2, 2010). [7 ]

 * See, these things like enmity and fighting... I don’t think I am at that age anymore.
 * I don’t feel ill about anyone. I don’t even feel nice about anyone. I just don’t think about them. I am selfish that way. I think about myself, my films and my friends.
 * Just because I am cheerful and jovial and look good, doesn’t mean that I can’t act.
 * I believe that my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world.

From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi
Quotes from an interview with Anshul Chaturvedi, Times Of India (dated September 30, 2010).[8 ]

 * Films and filmmakers and actors are part of a strange art form, which is only measured by the yardstick of commerce. So it's a dichotomy; it'll always be so.
 * I believe my nation is truly secular, I truly believe that.
 * It takes a lot of intellect to be able to convince people to believe in fantasy – but people don't seem to be able to recognize that.
 * I like talking when people ask me sensible questions. Ask me senseless questions also, but in a context, and I can have fun, I can make you laugh at my answers.
 * I don't think movie stars are nationally relevant – it's as simple as that.
 * We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.
 * I may say things with the right intention, but more often than not, people will misconstrue it.
 * If I'm ever asked to do something in the national interest, do a project of national relevance, it's not as if I will not charge for it, but I will ensure that what I give back is not just worth that money, but is a little more than that.
 * If somebody is working very hard, or deserves a lot of money, pay him upfront, say he is going to be working for so much time, he deserves it – and then put the rest of the money where it should go. But unfortunately, that sort of transparency is rarely there.
 * Creativity has this problem, sometimes it'll be liked, sometimes it won't. It's unfortunate that perhaps we expected something more popular from this music, and it isn't that. See, this is very subjective. You will find enough people who like that also, I think.
 * If I leave Pepsi, and later Coke tells me to do something for them, I'd do it. I have no issues, whether Coke and Pepsi have different ideologies or not. See, I'm called for a job, I'd do it.
 * I believe it is my job to tell people about what the good points of either company are. I'm not lying in either case.

From interview with Amrita Mulchandani
Quotes from an interview with Amrita Mulchandani, Times of India (dated January 29, 2010). [9 ]

 * I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.
 * The essence is that I leave something of me in every role — not 100 per cent.
 * I am the same old actor. When people question me I really look back and think but I feel people love characters like Rahul or Raj because they are different. Every role is different and I am not reinventing myself as an actor.
 * I believe the show must go on.
 * My strength to work in such situations comes from my family and people who love to watch me.
 * I am where I never thought I would be. I got much more than what I had expected. I am strong believer in God, hard work and honesty.
 * My family likes me as a person and not because I am an actor. I never mix the two. I don't know how much I earn or how many awards I have received.
 * Money is a good thing to run after. It is very important to be financially stable but you have to keep your wrongs and rights in mind. Don't shy away from earning but without selling your soul.

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Dudley W. Morton

Dudley Walker Morton,  also called "Mush" Morton (17 July 1907 – 11 October 1943) was Commander of USS R-5 SS-82 and USS Wahoo SS-238 in World War II.

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 * Tenacity, Dick — stay with the bastard till he's on the bottom.
 * To Richard O'Kane

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Ramones

The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in 1974 in Queens, New York. Original founding members were lead singer (and drummer) Joey Ramone, guitarist Johnny Ramone, and bassist Dee Dee Ramone. Their manager (Tommy Ramone) was then enlisted as the drummer.

Song lyrics
All songs written and composed by Ramones; except where indicated.

Ramones (1976)

 * Hey ho, let's go. Hey ho, let's go. Hey ho, let's go. Hey ho, let's go. They're forming in a straight line. They're going through a tight wind. The kids are losing their minds. The Blitzkrieg Bop.
 * ''Blitzkrieg Bop, written by Tommy and Dee Dee

 * Beat on the brat. Beat on the brat. Beat on the brat with a baseball bat. Oh yeah, oh yeah, uh-oh.
 * Beat on the Brat, written by Joey

 * Now I wanna sniff some glue, Now I wanna have somethin' to do. All the kids wanna sniff some glue. All the kids want somethin' to do.
 * Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue, written by Dee Dee

 * Next time I'll listen to my heart. Next time, well I'll be smart.
 * Listen to My Heart, written by Dee Dee

 * Then I took out my razor blade, Then I did what God forbade. Now the cops are after me. But I proved that I'm no sissy.
 * 53rd & 3rd, written by Dee Dee

 * I don't wanna walk around with you, So why you wanna walk around with me?
 * I Don't Wanna Walk Around with You, written by Dee Dee

Leave Home (1977)

 * Ran out of Carbona, Mom threw out the glue. Ran out of paint and roach spray too. It's TV's fault why I am this way.
 * Carbona Not Glue

 * Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go. They're ready to go, now they got their surfboards. And they're going to the discotheque Au Go Go. But she just couldn't stay, she had to break away. Well New York City really has it all oh yeah, oh yeah.
 * Sheena Is a Punk Rocker, written by Joey

 * Gabba gabba we accept you, we accept you, one of us.
 * Pinhead

 * D-U-M-B Everyone's accusing me.
 * Pinhead

 * Gabba gabba hey, gabba gabba hey!
 * Pinhead

 * First rule is: The laws of Germany. Second rule is: Be nice to mommy. Third rule is: Don't talk to commies. Fourth rule is: Eat kosher salamis.
 * Commando, written by Dee Dee and Johnny

Rocket to Russia (1977)

 * 1-2-3-4 cretins wanna hop some more 4-5-6-7 all good cretins go to heaven.
 * Cretin Hop

 * Chewing out a rhythm on my bubble gum, The sun is out and I want some. It's not hard, not far to reach. We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach.
 * Rockaway Beach, written by Dee Dee

 * We're a happy family, We're a happy family, We're a happy family: Me, mom and daddy.
 * We're a Happy Family

 * Lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy! DDT did a job on me. Now I am a real sickie. Guess I'll have to break the news That I got no mind to lose. All the girls are in love with me. I'm a teenage lobotomy.
 * Teenage Lobotomy

 * I want my LSD, Golly gee, DDT, wowee! Daddy's broke, Holy smoke. My future's bleak, Ain't it neat?
 * I Wanna Be Well

Road to Ruin (1978)

 * Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go, I wanna be sedated. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, I wanna be sedated. Just get me to the airport, Put me on a plane. Hurry hurry hurry, before I go insane I can't control my fingers, I can't control my brain, oh no, oh no, oh no.
 * I Wanna Be Sedated

End of the Century (1980)

 * Do you remember lying in bed with your covers Pulled up over your head? Radio playin' so one can see. We need change, we need it fast before rock's just part Of the past. 'Cause lately it all sound the same to me.
 * Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?

 * I'm livin' on a Chinese Rock. All my best things are in hock. I'm livin' on a Chinese rock. Everything is in the pawn shop.
 * Chinese Rocks, written by Dee Dee and Richard Hell

 * Well I don't care about history. Rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school. 'Cause that's not where I wanna be. Rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school. I just wanna have some kicks. I just wanna get some chicks. Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school.
 * Rock 'n' Roll High School

Pleasant Dreams (1981)

 * The KKK took my baby away, they took her away, Away from me. The KKK took my baby away, They took her away, away from me.
 * The KKK Took My Baby Away, written by Joey

Animal Boy (1986)

 * Bonzo goes to Bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea. As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me. Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy. Pick up the pieces. My brain is hanging upside down, I need something to slow me down.
 * Bonzo Goes to Bitburg, written by Joey, Dee Dee, and Jean Beauvoir

Brain Drain (1989)

 * Under the arc of weather stain boards, Ancient goblins, and warlords, Come out of the ground, not making a sound. The smell of death is all around, And the night when the cold wind blows, No one cares, nobody knows. I don't want to be buried in a Pet Sematary, I don't want to live my life again.
 * Pet Sematary, written by Dee Dee and Daniel Rey

Mondo Bizarro (1992)

 * No one ever thought this one would survive. Helpless child, gonna walk a drum beat behind. Lock you in a dream, never let you go. Never let you laugh or smile, not you. I just want to walk right out of this world, 'cause everybody has a poison heart.
 * ''Poison Heart', written by Dee Dee

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Sandra Bullock

Sandra Annette Bullock (born 26 July 1964) is a German-American actress.

Quotes

 * I know this in no way alleviates the enormous amounts of pain and loss experienced by those who have suffered from the tsunami, but I hope it can make a difference.
 * In a brief statement (4 January 2005), upon donating one million dollars to the relief efforts of the American Red Cross in response to the tsunamis at the end of 2004. This was her second million dollar gift to the American Red Cross; she had also donated a million dollars after the terrorists attacks of September 11th, 2001.

 * Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good bar fight once in a while. We'd get out a lot of stuff we're supposed to repress.
 * As quoted in "Calling Her Own Shots" by Karen S. Schneider in People, Vol. 63, No. 13 (4 April 2005)

 * Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.
 * As quoted in Uptown Magazine - Winnipeg's Online Source for Arts, Entertainment & News (8 January 2009)

 * Sandra Bullock on 'Gravity' Oscar Nom: 'I've Just Gotten Better at Not Picking Crap'
 * As quoted in

Parade interview (2009)

 * "Sandra Bullock: 'I'm Aware That I Can Be Annoying'" by Jeanne Wolf in Parade magazine (29 October 2009)

 * I like to iron. Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place. I am a big ball of high energy and organization and structure. Don't forget, I'm half-German.

 * I know I'm not easy to deal with. I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level. I'm aware that I can be annoying.

 * I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.
 * On her three step-children with husband Jesse G. James

 * I never did anything according to what anyone else wanted. That's why I think I am happy. I do everything 100% — even my stupidest missteps. I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

 * I have to fight every single day to live my true life. I don't ever want to come home saying, "I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right." … [But] I have to remember that there's a balance. I'm in the entertainment business. We're here to entertain people, to make them laugh and forget.

 * Therapy is washing of the brain. You’re willing to get a facial. Wash the brain. Take it out, clean it. What doesn’t belong there, throw it away.

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 * Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don’t sell out their friends.

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 * “Free is the best. Anything free is good.”

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 * “What do I want to say to little girls that I know? Don’t change. Be who you are.”

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 * “Once you’re a parent, you can’t see through different eyes other than that of a parent,”

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 * Does age matter? Time does“Once you’re a parent, you can’t see through different eyes other than that of a parent.

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 * “What do I want to say to little girls that I know? Don’t change. Be who you are.”

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 * “There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love.”

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 * I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge yout and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.

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 * Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.

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Quotes about Bullock

 * At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.
 * Marsha Evans, American Red Cross President and Chief Executive Officer, on Bullock's donation of one million dollars to the American Red Cross for relief of the victims Indian Ocean tsunami at the end of 2004.

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Philip Warren Anderson

Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist.

Quotes

 * The oxide superconductors, particularly those recently discovered that are based on La2CuO4, have a set of peculiarities that suggest a common, unique mechanism: they tend in every case to occur near a metal-insulator transition into an odd-electron insulator with peculiar magnetic properties. This insulating phase is proposed to be the long-sought "resonating-valence-bond" state or "quantum spin liquid" hypothesized in 1973. This insulating magnetic phase is favored by low spin, low dimensionality, and magnetic frustration. The preexisting magnetic singlet pairs of the insulating state become charged superconducting pairs when the insulator is doped sufficiently strongly.

 * It is seen as the application of a systematic “scientific method” involving wearing a white coat and being dull. I feel that too many young people come into science with this view, and that too many fields degenerate into the kind of work which results: automatic crank-turning and data-collecting of the sort which Kuhn calls “normal science” and Rutherford “stamp-collecting”. In fact, the creation of new science is a creative act, literally, and people who are not creative are not very good at it.
 * in Some ideas on the Aesthetics of Science, address presented by Philip W. Anderson as the Nishina Memorial Lecture at the 50th Anniversary Seminar of the Faculty of Science&Technology, at Keio University (Tokyo), on May 18, 1989.

 * My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.
 * Anderson was describing his dislike for "string theory".
 * Anderson was describing his dislike for "string theory".

 * I learned, practically in my cradle (actually from Bill McMillan's thesis), that the ground state wave function of a system of bosons should necessarily be real and positive, a fact which made his early Monte Carlo simulations infinitely easier.
 * (section on "Overlap Currents")

More Is Different (1972)

 * The behavior of large and complex aggregates of elementary particles, it turns out, is not to be understood in terms of a simple extrapolation of a few particles. Instead, at each level of complexity entirely new properties appear, and the understanding of the new behaviors requires research which I think is as fundamental in its nature as any other.
 * p. 393 of

 * By symmetry we mean the existence of different viewpoints from which the system appears the same. It is only slightly overstating the case to say that physics is the study of symmetry. The first demonstration of the power of this idea may have been by Newton, who may have asked himself the question: What if the matter here in my hand obeys the same laws as that up in the sky—that is, what if space and matter are homogeneous and isotropic?
 * p. 394

 * ... the state of a really big system does not at all have to have the symmetry of the laws which govern it; in fact, it usually has less symmetry.
 * p. 395

 * Surely there are more levels of organization between human ethology and DNA than there are between DNA and quantum electrodynamics, and each level can require a whole new conceptual structure.
 * p. 396

More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)

 * That Big Science culture in the USA, and similar groups elswhere, tended to have separate, direct access to government and hence to funding sources. It was independent to a great extent of the rest of science, of which it was never a majority component except in funding.
 * p. 94

 * “Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so ...”
 * p. 133

 * All I can say to the younger theorists is: don’t trust anyone over 45, except maybe me, and I’m not so sure about me.”
 * p. 159, quoted by N. David Mermin in

 * My Harvard classmate, Thomas S. Kuhn wrote, some years ago, an influential book about scientific revolutions. Fortunately, many scientific revolutions do not follow his scenario, but the one he focused on, the discovery of quantum mechanics, is well described by his model, which is most valid for a revolution occurring in the central core of a mature science.
 * p. 166

 * “We atheists can . . . argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse”.
 * p. 177

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