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Talk:David Lange

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I've created this page in response to Lange's death recently. Still needs formatting, tidy-up and expansion. Also needs quotes from Lange's autobiography. -- FP 21:01, August 16, 2005 (UTC) (previously editing as User:219.89.140.128)

Noticed throughout New Zealand
The following is one of the paragraphs from yesterday's newsletter to all subscribers to "Xtra" (one of the largest ISPs in the country):

 * You can thank prolific blogger Russell Brown for this - he's the one who noticed that Wikipedia have devoted a page to quotes and anecdotes from David Lange. It'll be no surprise to hear they're terrific. My particular favourite (in reference to the Dairy Industry): 'What a friend we have in cheeses'... more>>

We can forgive them for confusing Wikipedia with this sister project... Robin Patterson 22:16, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Muldoon and the IQ of New Zealanders and Australians
It was Sir Robert Muldoon who said, in the context of large numbers of New Zealanders moving to Australia for work, that every time a New Zealander moved to Australia, it increased the average IQ of both countries.

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 * Of his political colleagues: "If you took the glasses off some of them they'd be rendered dumb."

 * Of Michael Bassett: "A man who could eat a banana sideways".

David Lange: "Yes, but mine is further from the ground."
 * Sir Robert Muldoon: "At last there is a member with a larger stomach than my own."

 * Asked about the Security Intelligence Service by an opposition MP, he responded: "I can understand the member's desire to have a passing connection with intelligence which seems to have by-passed him all his life. He has kept his secret for years."

 * Commenting on the abilities of former National Party leader Jim McLay: "The performance of the leader of the opposition is now frantically, furiously, skitterishly, hopelessly, nervously, disastrously pathetic."

 * While at a Cabinet retreat in Fiji the menu for the day was explained, "You can get Chinese food all day, however if you want anything else you'll have to make a specific order." Lange quipped, "So it's Wok around the clock?"

Extracts from Press conferences quoted in Gliding on the Lino:
 * To a journalist who asked: "Prime Minister, can we go back to Ruatoria for a moment?": "Certainly, goodbye."

 * Lange: "Well I think that is a question which I would deem simply so stupid as not to be worth answering,"
 * Journalist: "Well I can't quite understand..."
 * Lange: "Well that confirms my assessment of the question."

 * When asked: "Prime Minister, I wonder if we might have a brief word about Australia" by a journalist, Lange replied: "Wombat"

 * Reacting to news that he had retained his Mangere seat in the 1990 election with a provisional majority of 3366: "Well, my majority might be of some interest to students of the Book of Revelation. It's thirty-three sixty-six."

 * Enquiring about his youngest daughter Edith, a journalist asked "Do you worry about being an old dad?" Lange replied: "No, I worry about being a dead dad."

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Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 film about an Italian Jew - Guido - who helps his son survive the Holocaust by pretending that it was all just a game. The film leads us from the relatively normal existence Guido had before the war, during which he worked for his uncle, Eliseo; met his wife, Dora; and had a son, Joshua (Giosué). Then leaps forward into the persecution during the second world war followed by the incarceration in a German concentration camp, where the young Joshua is kept from the horror of the Holocaust by the promise that if he plays the game, he will earn a real tank.

The film is in Italian (although some lines are in German or English), and its original title is La vita è bella. The following quotes are taken from the official English subtitles.

Guido

 * What kind of place is this? It's beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the sky! I'm moving here!
 * Buongiorno, Principessa! LET ME GO WITH YOU (Good Morning, Princess!)
 * (pretending to translate a German concentration camp guard's instructions to the new prisoners) The game starts now. You have to score one thousand points. If you do that, you take home a tank with a big gun. Each day we will announce the scores from that loudspeaker. The one who has the fewest points will have to wear a sign that says "Jackass" on his back. There are three ways to lose points. One, turning into a big crybaby. Two, telling us you want to see your mommy. Three, saying you're hungry and want something to eat.
 * You can do anything you want in the city. If you want to yell, yell. (His friend yells) Guido: Stop it! What are you, crazy? You can’t act like you do in the country. You’ve been acting like a madman. You can’t yell!
 * (carrying his son through the camp) You are such a good boy. You sleep now. Dream sweet dreams. Maybe it’s only a dream! We’re dreaming, Joshua. Tomorrow morning, Mommy will wake us up with milk and cookies.

Dora

 * My husband and son are on that train. I want to get on that train. Did you hear me? I want to get on him.

Joshua

 * We got a thousand points and we won the game! Daddy and me came in first and now we won the real tank! We won! We won!
 * Good morning, princess!

Dr Lessing

 * Seven seconds!
 * I have something important to tell you. Wait for my signal.
 * Help me, help me. I can’t sleep. What is the answer?

Eliseo

 * Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary.

Dialogue

 * Guido: I forgot to tell you.
 * Dora: Go ahead.
 * Guido: You can't imagine how much I feel like making love to you. But I'll never tell anyone, especially not you. They'd have to torture me to make me say it.
 * Dora: Say what?
 * Guido: That I want to make love to you - not just once, but over and over again! But I'll never tell you that. I'd have to be crazy to tell you. I'd even make love to you now... right here for the rest of my life.

 * Bartolomeo: They are looking for someone who speaks German, to translate their instructions.
 * Guido: (raises his hand)
 * Bartolomeo: Do you speak German?
 * Guido: No.

 * Guido (to Giosue): I told you we’re going to have fun.
 * Joshua: (watching his uncle being sent to the gas chamber) Where is Uncle going?
 * Guido: Uh... oh, he's playing on a different team. Goodbye, Uncle!
 * Joshua: Goodbye, Uncle.

 * Joshua: They turn us into buttons and soap.
 * Guido: Who told you that?
 * Joshua: An old man was crying. He said they turn us into buttons and soap.
 * Guido: You fell for that? Again? I thought you were a sharp boy – cunning, intelligent. Buttons and soap out of people? That’ll be the day!

 * Guido: The prize is... the prize is...
 * Eliseo: A tank.
 * Guido: Yes! Yes, the prize is a tank.
 * Joshua: I already have one.
 * Guido: No, a real one.
 * Joshua: A real tank?

 * Guido: Did you play with the other kids?
 * Joshua: Yes, but they don’t know the rules. They said it isn’t true that the first prize is a tank. They don’t know anything about points.
 * Guido: Did you fall for that? They’re as sly as foxes. They want to beat you. Are you joking? There’s no tank? Don’t you believe them!

 * Guido: Mary! Send down the key!  (speaking to the woman in the window)

 * Guido: What are your political views?
 * Italian Official: [speaking to his two sons] Benito, Adolf! Be good !... Sorry Guido, what did you say?

 * Guido: (learning how to be a waiter) How far do I bow? I suppose I can even go 180 degrees.
 * Eliseo: Think of a sunflower, they bow to the sun. But if you see some that are bowed too far down, it means they're dead. You're here serving, you're not a servant. Serving is the supreme art. God is the first of servants. God serves men, but he's not a servant to men.

 * Giosué: "No Jews or Dogs Allowed." Why do all the shops say, "No Jews Allowed"?
 * Guido: Oh, that. "Not Allowed" signs are the latest trend! The other day, I was in a shop with my Chinese friend and his pet kangaroo, but their sign said, "No Chinese or Kangaroos Allowed," and I said to my friend, "Well, what can I do? They don't allow kangaroos."
 * Giosué: We let everyone in our shop, don't we?
 * Guido: Well, tomorrow, we'll put one up. We won't let in anything we don't like. What don't you like?
 * Giosué: Spiders.
 * Guido: Good I don't like Visigoths. Tomorrow, we'll get a sign: "No Spiders or Visigoths Allowed."

 * Guido: [being shipped to a concentration camp] You've never ridden on a train, have you? They're fantastic! Everybody stands up, close together, and there are no seats!
 * Giosué: There aren't any seats?
 * Guido: Seats? On a train? It's obvious you've never ridden one before! No, everybody's packed in, standing up. Look at this line to get on! Hey, we've got tickets, save room for us!

 * Giosué: Look, they stopped the train to let Mom get on.
 * Guido: Dora...

Riddles

 * Note: these riddles are translated from the original Italian rather than taken from the official English subtitles. For this reason, though the meanings of the words are retained, the meanings of the riddles as a whole may not be.

 * The bigger it is, the less you see it
 * (Obscurity)
 * The dwarves and Snow White sit down for a bite. How fast can you guess what she serves her guests next?
 * (Seven Seconds!)
 * If you say my name I'm not there anymore. Who am I?
 * (Silence)
 * Fat, fat, ugly, ugly, all yellow in reality. If you ask me what I am I answer, 'Cheap, cheap, cheap.' Wailing along I go, 'Poopoo'. Who am I? Tell me true.
 * (In Italian "Qua", has dual translation, it can mean "quack" or "here" so in Italian, the answer is Jews. In Nazi opinion, Jews are fat, ugly, all yellow, cheap, and they are here, the camp); referring to cowardice, and 'quack, quack, quack' (in Italian- "coin, coin, coin") Roberto Benigni states that there is no answer to this riddle, symbolizing the pointlessness of the war.
 * "Life Is Beautiful : four riddles, three answers" by Steve Siporin, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 7, Issue 3 (2002)

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National Lampoon's Van Wilder

National Lampoon's Van Wilder is a 2002 comedy film about a college student in his seventh year without graduating.
 * Directed by Walt Becker. Written by Brent Goldberg and David Wagner.

Don't Graduate. Celebrate. (taglines)

Van Wilder

 * Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.
 * Are you stalking me? 'Cause that would be super.
 * Hey, look. That old bag is stronger than she looks.
 * And thus, 'Topless Tutors' was born.
 * Sharing a half-calf latte and a penalty box with Gwen Pearson who believes that censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself.
 * Don't be a fool, stay in school.
 * Don't be a fool, wrap your tool.
 * All this time I thought I was more to you than some flaccid story.
 * You must be Pre-Med Dick.
 * Her name is Naomi. That's 'I MOAN' backwards.
 * Richard, you rascal, you never told me you were a DIK! [under breath] Not that you had to.
 * I'd like you to meet Sherri and Terri. Two girls utterly infatuated with men who have larger than normal... medulla oblongata's.
 * Well, it is the NAKED mile run; everyone else will be in their birthday suits. Except for that guy...
 * Write that down.
 * Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.
 * Those circus midgets can NOT hold their booze!
 * Oh God. If he's here who's running hell?
 * I learned a long time ago you can't treat every situation like it's life and death. Cause you'll die a lot of times.
 * Sometimes you gotta let your heart lead you, even if you know it's someplace you know you're not supposed to be.

Taj Mahal Badalandabad

 * Tit! Oh mummy. Most Indians would say cow because they are sacred, but, I hear milk I think giant jugs. You see, I can not go home a virgin. I came here to study the great American art of muff diving. [Van Wilder spits out his water] To-to-to smack clam, munch rug, dine at just one American pink taco stand! You know, I wanted to, how is it, park the porpoise. You know? I want to take it through the car wash, baby, you know? And get it waxed. You know, I want to wax it. Wax it! You know, and air dry. You know, air dry that shit, yeah! And I would like to be your assistant very much, Mr. Van Wilder.
 * This is the White Barry.
 * You...you...you....you pussy ass mother fucker dick sucker!

Other Characters

 * Richard: You do not call her that, Gonad!
 * Vance Wilder, Sr: Sweet Joseph, my son's a fairy.
 * Jeannie: It was the greatest ten seconds. Ever.
 * Applicant: I see a rabbi. And he's performing a circumcision...on himself though.
 * Prof. McDoogle: Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.

Dialogue

 * Van: Blue. It brings out your eyes. Kid's got killer eyes; not unlike yourself. Anyone ever tell you that?
 * Gwen: Yes, my boyfriend.

 * Van: Now, repeat after me. No cock pump...
 * Taj: No cock pump.

 * Taj: This is the culmination of my being.
 * Naomi: Baby, I'm about to culminate, now get over here.

 * Vance Wilder, Sr.: Van is still in school?
 * Assistant: For the better part of a decade.

 * Vance Wilder, Sr.: And, schedule in a massage.
 * Assistant: With a Happy Ending?
 * Vance Wilder, Sr.: Ah Yes.

 * Jeannie: This party so rocks, Richard!
 * Richard: This party sucks rectum, Jeannie!

 * McDoogle: Ok, Wilder. Let's dance.
 * Van: It's a good day to die, McDoogle.

 * Jeannie: [during sex] P.S. This an awesome room.
 * Richard: P.S. Shut the fuck up!

Taglines

 * The Tradition Continues
 * Don't Graduate. Celebrate.
 * If you're going for an advanced degree in partying...Why graduate?
 * No party gets started until it gets wilder.
 * Born to be wilder!
 * All the girls want him. All the boys want to be him.
 * Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive

Cast

 * Ryan Reynolds — Van Wilder
 * Kal Penn — Taj Mahal Badalandabad
 * Tara Reid — Gwen E. Pearson
 * Tim Matheson — Vance Wilder Sr.

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Talk:Hackers & Painters

this is kind of a mess, and i will leave it up to the admin's (or someone higher up than i) to figure this one out. Hackers & Painters is a book by Paul Graham. there is a wikiquote and wikipedia entry for the same Paul Graham, the one who wrote the book. however, the first chapter of the book is also a publicly available essay ( paulgraham.com/nerds.html ). the biggest question/problem is the wikiquote Paul Graham contains quotes from the essay, "Why Nerds Are Unpopular" and from other parts of the book Hackers & Painters. so, where should all of these quotes go? under Paul Graham, under Hackers & Painters... you get the idea. -Sasha, 03:23, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

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Newton N. Minow

Newton Norman Minow (January 17, 1926 – May 6, 2023) was an FCC Chairman from 1961 to 1963 (appointed by John F. Kennedy), lawyer, author, activist on behalf of quality television, organizer of Presidential debates.

Speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961 (the Wasteland Speech)

 * When television is good, nothing--not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers--nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

 * What do we mean by "the public interest?" Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.

 * We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

 * Never have so few owed so much to so many.

 * To quarrel over the past is to lose the future.

Quote from a speech to the Association of American Law Schools
"After 35 years, I have finished a comprehensive study of European comparative law. In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited, except that which is permitted. In France, under the law, everything is permitted, except that which is prohibited. In the Soviet Union, under the law, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted. And in Italy, under the law, everything is permitted, especially that which is prohibited."
 * Donald Ball and Wendell H. McCulloch, Jr., International Business: Introduction and Essentials, 5th ed. (Homewood, IL: Richard Irwin, 1993), p. 368.

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Wilson Mizner

Wilson Mizner (May 19, 1876 – April 3, 1933) was an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912. He was manager and co-owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, California, and was affiliated with his brother, Addison Mizner, in a series of scams and picaresque misadventures that inspired Stephen Sondheim's play entitled Bounce!.

Epigrams

 * Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
 * Quoted in Alva Johnston's The Legendary Mizners (1953, Farrar Straus and Young, New York, chapter 4, p 66) and Bartlett's, 1992, p. 631.
 * Also quoted as If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research by Stuart B. McIver in Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags.

 * Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore.
 * Quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7. Loos goes on to claim that "the aphorism had no validity for Wilson."

 * Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
 * "Maxims Old and New", All of a Piece: New Essays (1937), edited by Edward Verrall Lucas, p. 52.

Wisecracks

 * Harry Thaw shot the wrong architect.
 * Disparaging the work of Joseph Urban, his brother Addison's architectural rival. Harry Thaw was a wealthy man of the times who had shot and killed architect Stanford White over his earlier involvement with Thaw's wife Evelyn Nesbit.
 * Quoted by Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners, 1953, Farrar Straus and Young, New York. Johnston allows that the quote has been attributed to many others, but makes a good case that Mizner said it first.

 * To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
 * Quoted by John Burke, Rogue's Progress, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1975, ISBN 0-399-11423-8.

 * ...a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat.
 * On Hollywood.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.
 * On his later respectability.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

On Death and Dying

 * Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy.
 * Telegram to his brother, upon the news that Addison was fatally ill.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * Tell 'em to count to ten over him and he'll get up.
 * On hearing that his prizefighter, Stanley Ketchel, was dying of gunshot wounds.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
 * On his deathbed.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * You can't be a rascal for 40 years and then cop a plea the last minute. God keeps better books than that.
 * On his deathbed.
 * Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

About

 * Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.
 * Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * America's most fascinating outlaw.
 * Anita Loos, as quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 * That man was so much larger than life that there's no scale by which to measure him. Most of Wilson's dialogue, if put down on paper, seems either vulgar or obscene.
 * Gene Fowler, as quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7.

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American Psycho
In regards to your [Changes] to the American Psycho page. Are these quotes from the book or film that you corrected? Thanks for catching them if from the film. Sveden 19:41, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

These quotes are from the film. --ThomasK 13:44, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

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Falklands War

The Falklands War was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The United Kingdom had held the Falklands since 1831, but in support of a long-standing territorial claim, Argentinian president Leopoldo Galtieri ordered an invasion on 2 April. The British government under Margaret Thatcher dispatched a naval task force which succeeded in taking back control of the islands on 14 June; 649 Argentine and 258 British forces were killed in the war, along with three Falkland Island civilians.

Quotes

 * The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
 * Jorge Luis Borges, as quoted in Time magazine (14 February 1983)
 * Variant: Two bald men fighting over a comb.
 * As paraphrased in Julian Barnes, "The worst reported war since the Crimean", The Guardian, 25 February 2002.

 * With Christian faith I pray that those who are today our adversaries may understand their error in time and may deeply reflect before persisting in a stance which is rejected by all the free peoples in the world and by all those who had their territory mutiliated and endured colonialism and exploitation.
 * Leopoldo Galtieri, President Galtieri’s address to the nation, 2 April 1982

 * The Empire Strikes Back.
 * Newsweek front page (19 April 1982) in reference to the British Empire.

 * The episode of the Falklands war will be seen as important because it convinced many people in and outside the country that we were not played out as a nation... I saw the Falklands invasion as a test of the country's confidence, a test of how the British lion still should behave when somebody really twisted its tail. The great bulk of opinion in the House of Commons reflected opinion in the country. This was a time to stand and, if need be, fight. We should be grateful for that: imagine how this country would feel now if General Galtieri was crowing in Buenos Aires and the Argentinians were still in occupation of the Falklands. What happened was a triumph for a solid British virtue which knows when to say, "Up with this I will not put".
 * David Owen, Personally Speaking to Kenneth Harris (1987), pp. 183-184

 * What really thrilled me, having spent so much of my lifetime in Parliament, and talking about things like inflation, Social Security benefits, housing problems, environmental problems and so on, is that when it really came to the test, what's thrilled people wasn't those things, what thrilled people was once again being able to serve a great cause, the cause of liberty.
 * Margaret Thatcher, Speech to the Scottish Conservative Party Conference, 14 May 1982.
 * Often misquoted as: "When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands."

 * The battle of the Falklands was a remarkable military operation, boldly planned, bravely executed, and brilliantly accomplished. We owe an enormous debt to the British forces and to the Merchant Marine. We honour them all. They have been supported by a people united in defence of our way of life and of our sovereign territory.
 * Margaret Thatcher, speech in the House of Commons (15 June 1982)

 * The significance of the Falklands War was enormous, both for Britain's self-confidence and for our standing in the world...We had come to be seen by both friends and enemies as a nation which lacked the will and the capability to defend its interests in peace, let alone in war. Victory in the Falklands changed that. Everywhere I went after the war, Britain's name meant something more than it had. The war also had real importance in relations between East and West: years later I was told by a Russian general that the Soviets had been firmly convinced that we would not fight for the Falklands, and that if we did fight we would lose. We proved them wrong on both counts, and they did not forget the fact.
 * Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (1993), pp. 173-174

 * But when you are at war you cannot allow the difficulties to dominate your thinking: you have to set out with an iron will to overcome them. And anyway what was the alternative? That a common or garden dictator should rule over the Queen's subjects and prevail by fraud and violence? Not while I was prime minister.
 * Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (1993), p. 181

 * What an unlikely pair of antagonists! The British have always fought, to be sure. No nation on Earth can be taken seriously in historical circles unless it has had at least one war with the British; it's like not having an American Express card. And yet the very idea of Britain in a contemporary war is a shock. Britain, one feels, fights in history books and not on TV.
 * Gene Wolfe, "A Few Points About knife Throwing", Fantasy Newsletter (1983), as reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)

 * The Falkland Islands are once more under the government desired by their inhabitants. God save the Queen.
 * Jeremy Moore in a telegram informing the British government that the Argentine forces had surrendered, 14 June 1982.

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Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg (born 3 May 1933 - 23 July 2021) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics (with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow) for combining electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force.

Quotes

 * ... most physicists would probably agree that the place of local fields is nowhere so secure as in the the theory of photons and gravitons, whose properties seem indissolubly linked with the space-time concepts of gauge invariance (of the second kind) and/or Einstein's equivalence principle.
 * (quote from p. B1049)

 * As everyone today knows, in specifying the value of a gauge coupling constant it is necessary to say not only what its value is but where — that is at what normalization scale — it has that value.
 * "Calculation of fine structure constants." In Fourth Workshop on Grand Unification, pp. 380–394. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 1983. (page 390)

 * Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.
 * "Elementary particles and the laws of Physics" in The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures (1987)

 * Considering the pervasive importance of quantum mechanics in modern physics, it is odd how rarely one hears of efforts to test quantum mechanics experimentally with high precision.…The trouble is that it is very difficult to find any logically consistent generalization of quantum mechanics. One obvious target for generalization is the linearity of quantum mechanics, but if we arbitrarily add nonlinear terms to the Schrodinger equation, how do we know that the theory we obtain will have a sensible physical interpretation? At least in part, it is the dearth of generalized versions of quantum mechanics that has made it so hard to plan experimental tests of quantum mechanics.
 * "Testing Quantum Mechanics", Annals of Physics (1989)

 * The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
 * Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature (1993), ISBN 0-09-922391-0.

 * So what happens to the effective field theories of electroweak, strong, and gravitational interactions at energies of order 1015–1018 GeV? I know of only two plausible alternatives. One possibility is that the theory remains a quantum field theory, but one in which the finite or infinite number of renormalized couplings do not run off to infinity with increasing energy, but hit a fixed point of the renormalizable group equations. ... The other possibility, which I have to admit is a priori more likely, is that at very high energy we will run into really new physics, not describable in terms of a quantum field theory. I think that by far the most likely possibility is that this will be something like a string theory.
 * "What is quantum field theory, and what did we think it is?", arXiv preprint hep-th/9702027 (1997) (pp. 12–13)

 * Either by God you mean something definite or you don't mean something definite. If by God you mean a personality who is concerned about human beings, who did all this out of love for human beings, who watches us and who intervenes, then I would have to say in the first place how do you know, what makes you think so? And in the second place, is that really an explanation? If that's true, what explains that? Why is there such a God? It isn't the end of the chain of whys, it just is another step, and you have to take the step beyond that.
 * Steven Weinberg, PBS interview, 1998

 * If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists.
 * "The Revolution That Didn't Happen" in The New York Review of Books (1998)

 * Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
 * Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999)
 * This comment is modified in a later article derived from these talks:
 * Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a genuinely good person, whose soft heart pitied even Satan, but who had no doubt about the legitimacy of slavery, because in years of living in antebellum Missouri she had never heard any sermon opposing slavery, but only countless sermons preaching that slavery was God's will. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.
 * "A Designer Universe?" at PhysLink.com

 * One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.
 * Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999)

 * In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to them, bothering them, and I never heard any of them talk about postmodernism or social constructivism. You have to be very learned to be that wrong.
 * "Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist" (February 1995); republished in Facing Up: Science And Its Cultural Adversaries (2001)

 * It seems to me that we are in the position of a company of players who have by chance found their way into a great theater. Outside, the city streets are dark and lifeless, but in the theater the lights are on, the air is warm, and the walls are wonderfully decorated. However, no scripts are found, so the players begin to improvise—a little psychological drama, a little poetry, whatever comes to mind. Some even set themselves to explain the stage machinery. The players do not forget that they are just amusing themselves, and that they will have to return to the darkness outside the theater, but while on the stage they do their best to give a good performance. I suppose that this is a rather melancholy view of human life, but melancholy is one of the distinctive creations of our species, and not without its own consolations.
 * Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries pp. 47–48 (2001)

 * It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.
 * Physics Today (November 2005) page 35

 * There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try to damp down the conflict, that we should compromise it. … I respect their views and I understand their motives, and I don't condemn them, but I'm not having it. To me, the conflict between science and religion is more important than these issues of science education or even environmentalism. I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; and anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.
 * Closing statements of presentation at Beyond Belief : Science, Religion, Reason and Survival (5 November 2006)

 * A superconductor of any kind is nothing more or less than a material in which a particular symmetry of the laws of nature, electromagnetic gauge invariance, is spontaneously broken. ... These rotations act on a two-dimensional vector, whose two components are the real and imaginary parts of the electron field, the quantum mechanical operator that in quantum field theories of matter destroys electrons. The rotation angle of the broken symmetry group can vary with location in the superconductor, and then the symmetry transformations also affect the electromagnetic potentials ... The symmetry breaking in a superconductor leaves unbroken a rotation by 180°, which simply changes the sign of the electron field. In consequence of this spontaneous symmetry breaking, products of any even number of electron fields have non-vanishing expectation values in a superconductor, though a single electron field does not. All of the dramatic exact properties of superconductors – zero electrical resistance, the expelling of magnetic fields from superconductors known as the Meissner effect, the quantization of magnetic flux through a thick superconducting ring, and the Josephson formula for the frequency of the AC current at a junction between two superconductors with different voltages – follow from the assumption that electromagnetic gauge invariance is broken in this way, with no need to inquire into the mechanism by which the symmetry is broken.

 * If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that—in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.
 * Quoted in Frankenberry The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words (2008), p. 336

 * There is a hope, which I nurse but I don't see being realized, that eventually we'll find that quantum mechanics as we know it now is just an approximation ...
 * (Steven Weinberg interviewed by Richard Dawkins in 2008; quote at 58:49 of 1:14:51 in video)

 * 's kindness to me and my wife went beyond his help with this research. He had my wife and me to dinner at his house and at that dinner I went to the bathroom and I learned something about Källén that I don't think anyone knows. And that is that he had hand towels embroidered with the . And I mentioned this to Mrs. Källén and she said they were a present from Pauli.
 * (quote at 10:15 of 1:28:03 in video; lecture recorded on February 13, 2009)

 * A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.
 * "Particle physics, from Rutherford to the LHC," Physics Today 64, no.8 (August 2011), 29-33, on 30.

 * In fact, there is something puzzling about the Higgs mass we now do observe. It is generally known as the “hierarchy problem.” Since it is the Higgs mass that sets the scale for the masses of all other known elementary particles, one might guess that it should be similar to another mass that plays a fundamental role in physics, the so-called Planck mass, which is the fundamental unit of mass in the theory of gravitation. (It is the mass of hypothetical particles whose gravitational attraction for one another would be as strong as the electric force between two electrons separated by the same distance.) But the Planck mass is about a hundred thousand trillion times larger than the Higgs mass. So, although the Higgs particle is so heavy that a giant particle collider was needed to create it, we still have to ask, why is the Higgs mass so small?
 * "The Big Higgs Question", The New York Review of Books, 9 July 2012

 * There’s something I’ve been working on for more than a year — maybe it’s just an old man’s obsession, but I’m trying to find an approach to quantum mechanics that makes more sense than existing approaches. I’ve just finished editing the second edition of my book, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, in which I think I strengthen the argument that none of the existing interpretations of quantum mechanics are entirely satisfactory.
 * Steven Weinberg, in "Science’s Path From Myth to Multiverse" by Dan Falk (March 17, 2015)

 * It doesn't work to build half an accelerator. The particles need to go all the way around.
 * On The Shoulders of Giants - "The Future of Science" by Steven Weinberg, World Science Festival, YouTube, 2015

 * Having taught quantum mechanics and written a book about it recently — a technical treatise — I find that I am not as happy about quantum mechanics as I used to be — not as dismissive of the critics. And it's a bad sign in particular that those physicists who are happy about quantum mechanics — who don't see anything wrong with it — don't agree with each other about what it means. ... And the problem has specifically to do with the act of measurement.
 * (quote at 17:35 of 1:05:21 in video; 4th delivered on October 20, 2016 in San Antonio, Texas)

 * Symmetry is not enough by itself. In electromagnetism, for example, if you write down all the symmetries we know, such as Lorentz invariance and gauge invariance, you don’t get a unique theory that predicts the magnetic moment of the electron. The only way to do that is to add the principle of renormalisability – which dictates a high degree of simplicity in the theory and excludes these additional terms that would have changed the magnetic moment of the electron from the value Schwinger calculated in 1948.
 * as quoted in an interview by Matthew Chalmers:

 * One of the things that excited me so much about quantum chromodynamics after the work of Gross and Wilczek and Politzer was that it seemed to provide a rational explanation for what had always been mysterious to me — the fact that there were symmetries, like parity conservation, charge conjugation invariance, and strangeness conservation, that were very good symmetries of the strong and electromagnetic interactions — as far as we knew exact — and yet were not respected by the weak interactions. Why should nature have ... symmetries that are symmetries of part of nature but not other parts of nature?
 * "Reminiscences of the Standard Model" - Special Colloquium by Steven Weinberg, 17 October 2017, YouTube video at 1:02:17 of 1:39:24

 * ... I found that I was unable to explain the foundations of quantum mechanics in a way that I found entirely satisfactory.
 * The Problems of Quantum Mechanics: Steven Weinberg (July 17, 2018) YouTube video at 3:58 of 45:42

 * In the Standard Model the masses of quarks and leptons take values proportional to the coupling constants in the interaction of these fermions with scalar fields, constants that in the context of this model are entirely arbitrary. But the peculiar hierarchical pattern of lepton and quark masses seems to call for a larger theory, in which in some leading approximation the only quarks and leptons with non-zero mass are those of the third generation, the tau, top, and bottom, with the other lepton and quark masses arising from some sort of radiative correction. Such theories were actively considered ... soon after the completion of the Standard Model, but interest in this program seems to have lapsed subsequently ...

 * ... there are particles ... that we have never seen in a laboratory but astronomers tell us make up most of the matter in the universe — the so-called . It's dark because it doesn't radiate — it doesn't interact with light. We just know about it because of its gravitational field. What is the dark matter? ... We have a lot of ideas — all going in different directions. We don't know which is the right idea.
 * (quote at 7:54 of 15:51; interview by William Banko)

The First Three Minutes (1977; second edition 1993)

 * Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. It is always hard to realize that these numbers and equations we play with at our desks have something to do with the real world. ...The most important thing accomplished by the three-degree radiation background in 1965 was to force us to take seriously the idea that there was an early universe.
 * (1977)

 * It is almost irresistible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning. ... It is very hard to realise that this is all just a tiny part of an overwhelmingly hostile universe. It is even harder to realise that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
 * (1993), Epilogue, p. 154

 * The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
 * ''(1993), Epilogue, p. 155

The Discovery of Subatomic Particles (1983; Revised edition 2003)
I also hope that this book will be enjoyed by students and practitioners of the history of science.
 * This book is written for readers who may not be familiar with classical physics, but who are willing to pick up enough... to be able to understand the rich tangle of ideas and experiments that make up the history of twentieth century physics. This background is provided in a number of "flashback"sections on the nature of electricity, Newton's laws of motion, electric and magnetic forces, conservation of energy, atomic weights and so on... inserted wherever... needed to allow the reader to understand the next point in the history. ...Generally ...the student or reader is ...is offered only one path ...ideal for ...physicists, but for many ...an impassable desert ...I invite the reader to plunge immediately into... key topics ...using each ...as an entreé into just those concepts and methods ...needed to understand that topic. ...Most of what I know about physics and mathematics I have learned only when there was no alternative ...in order to get on with my work. ...So the plan of this book may be closer to the actual education of working scientists than many ...My hope ...that this book may contribute to a radical revision in the way ...science is brought to the nonscientists. ...This book is intended to be comprehensible to readers who have no prior background in science, and no familiarity with mathematics beyond arithmetic. ...Appendices present some of the calculations that underlie the reasoning in the main text. ...The great scientific achievements described here form the a large part of the soil from which our... recent harvest of discoveries have sprung. ...I hope that scientists find some ...enlightening.
 * Preface

Still, it would be a pity not to show the links between the historic discoveries... and the work of fundamental physics today. I have therefore taken the opportunity... of this new edition to point out these links... I now carry the story of the discovery of elementary particles... to the present day.
 * This is not intended to be yet another popular book that offers... the latest news in physics.
 * Preface to Revised Edition

 * By the end of the nineteenth century the idea of the atom had become familiar... but not yet universally accepted. Partly because of the heritage of Newton and Dalton, there was a disposition to use atomic theories in England. ...Resistance to atomism persisted in Germany ...under the influence of an empiricist school... centered on Ernst Mach... many [German physicists and chemists] held back from incorporating into... theories anything that—like atoms—could not be observed directly. ...It is said that the opposition to Boltzmann's work by the followers of Mach contributed to Boltzmann's suicide...

 * Under ordinary circumstances, visible light is absorbed or emitted when the electrons in an atom or molecule are excited into orbits of higher energy, or sink back into orbits of lower energy, respectively.

 * The s and s in nuclei, like the electrons surrounding the nuclei, can be excited to states of higher energy or... fall back to a state of lower energy, but the energies... are typically a million times those need to excite the electrons...

 * Electrons are believed to be absolutely stable, and protons and neutrons (when bound...) live at least 1030 years. With few exceptions, all other particles have very short lifetimes...

 * The reader may... wonder why when amber is rubbed with fur the electrons go from the fur to the amber, but when glass is rubbed with silk the electrons go from the glass to the silk? ...[W]e still don't know. The question involves the physics of surfaces of complex solids... In a purely empirical way, there has been developed... the triboelectric sequence... The electrification is most intense for objects... well separated in the... sequence. ...It is ironic that we still do not have a detailed understanding of frictional electrification, even though it was the first... to be studied... But... often... science progresses... by selecting problems that are as free as possible from irrelevant complications and... provide opportunities to get at fundamental principles...

 * In 1709 Hauksbee observed that when air inside a glass vessel was evacuated... [to] 1/60 normal air pressure and the vessel was attached to... frictional electricity, a strange light would be seen... Flashes... similar... had... been noticed in the partial vacuum above... mercury in barometers. ...[T]oday we know ...[w]hen an electric current flows through a gas, the electrons knock into the gas atoms and give up some... energy... reemitted as as light. Today's fluorescent lights and neon signs are based on the same principle... but even at 1/60 atmospheric pressure the air interfered too much with the flow of electrons to allow their nature to be discovered. Real progress became possible only when the gas... could be removed...

We know now that these rays are streams of electrons. ...But this was far from obvious to nineteenth century physicists. ...Plücker ...observed that the position of the glow on the walls of the tube could be moved by ...a magnet ...
 * In 1858 Johann Heinrich Geissler... invented a pump that used columns of mercury as pistons and consequently needed no gaskets. ...Geissler's pump was used... by ... [M]etal plates inside a glass tube were connected to a powerful source of electricity. ...[W]hen almost all of the air was evacuated ...the light disappeared through most of the tube, but a greenish glow appeared ...near the cathode. ...A few years later, ... introduced a name... s.

 * Plücker's student J. W. Hittorf... observed that solid bodies... near a small cathode would cast shadows... [and] deduced... the rays travel... in straight lines.

 * Hertz showed... the... rays were not appreciably deflected by electrified metal plates. This seemed to rule out... electrically charged particles... Hertz concluded the rays were some sort of wave... the nature of light was... not well understood, and a magnetic deflection did not seem impossible. In 1891 Hertz made a further observation... to support the wave theory... The rays could penetrate thin foils of gold and other metals, much as light penetrates glass. ...We know now that... the... particles were traveling so fast, and the electric forces were so weak... the deflection was too small to observe.

 * Perrin... showed in 1895 that the rays deposit negative electrical charge on a charge collector... inside... the tube.

 * [I]n 1897 Thomson... detected a deflection... by electric forces between the rays and the electrified metal plates. ...due largely to the use of better vacuum pumps ...to where the effects of residual gas ...became negligible. (Some evidence for... deflection was [also] found... by Goldstein.) [D]eflection was toward the positively charged plate... away from the negatively charged one, confirming Perrin... that the rays carry negative electric charge.

 * Thomson... exerted electric and magnetic forces on the rays and measured the amount... deflected.

 * The laws of motion... were set out by... Newton at the beginning of... the Principia. ...[T]he key principle is ...in the Second Law... paraphrased as... the force to give an object a certain acceleration is proportional to the product of the and the.

 * Acceleration is the rate of change of . ...The units are ...velocity per unit time, or distance-per-time per time. ...[F]alling bodies ...near ...earth fall with an acceleration or 9.8 meters-per-second per second ...after the first second ...falling at speed ...9.8 meters per second, after two seconds... 19.6 ...and so on. [T]he units of velocity are length/time... and units of acceleration... (distance/time)/time, or equivalently distance/time2 ...[T]he acceleration near... Earth would be written 9.8 m/sec2 for short.

 * As a special case of Newton's Second Law, a body... when acted on by zero force, will experience zero acceleration—that is, it will move with constant velocity. Newton listed this... as the First Law... The Third Law... action equals reaction: If one body exerts a force on another... the second... exerts an equal force in the opposite direction on the first.

 * When the velocity and the acceleration are changing, we can define the instantaneous velocity or acceleration at any moment as the average values... over a vanishingly small time interval centered on that moment. Newton's Law actually relates the force to the instantaneous acceleration.

 * Velocity, acceleration, and force are vectors... they have direction as well as magnitude. It is often convenient to describe... [vectors] in terms of their components along specified directions. ...Components of vectors can be negative as well as positive ...Newton's Second Law applies separately to each component... it says... the component of force in any direction is equal to the mass times the corresponding component of acceleration.

 * When several forces act... the total force is the sum... each component of the total force is the sum of the corresponding components of the individual forces.

 * Thomson used Newton's Second Law to obtain a general formula... to interpret measurements of the cathode-ray deflection... produced by... electric or magnetic forces... In his cathode ray tube, the ray particles pass through... the deflection region... subjected to electric and magnetic forces... at right angles to their original direction... then through a much longer force-free... drift region... in which they drift freely until they hit the end of the tube... [a] glowing spot... The forces exerted on the cathode ray particles give them an acceleration at right angles to the axis of the tube, so... the particles have a small component of velocity at right angles to their original motion... equal to the product of the acceleration and the time... in the [very short] deflection region... [T]he downward displacement of the ray when it hits the end of the tube is the downward velocity produced in the deflection region times the length of time... in the drift region... [T]he electric force... on a particle is proportional to the [particle's] electric charge... [U]nlike the electric force, the magnetic force... on a particle is proportional to the particle's velocity as well as its charge. By measuring... deflections due to... [both] forces, Thomson... could determine both the ray-particle velocities and the ratio of their charge and mass.

 * Early speculation on about electric forces relied... on an analogy with Newton's theory of gravitational forces. At the end of Principia, Newton described gravitation as a cause that acts on the sun and the planets "according to the quantity of solid matter which they contain and propagates on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances." ...It was irresistible to guess that the electric force might obey a similar law, also proportional to the inverse square of the distance... with charge playing the role that mass plays...
 * Refer to : $$F=G\frac{m_1m_2}{r^2}$$.

 * (...Newton's theory... is now known only to be an approximation... for particles... not moving too fast and gravitational forces... not too strong. ...It is one of the consequences of General Relativity that gravitation is produced by and acts on energy as well as mass, so that it even affects particles of zero mass, like the photon.

 * Coulomb used a... device of his own invention, the torsion balance, to measure forces between small pith balls. The inverse-square law was found to hold accurately...
 * Refer to : $$|F|=k_\text{e} \frac{|q_1||q_2|}{r^2}$$.

 * It is... convenient to state Coulomb's law in modern terms, first used... by James Clerk Maxwell. The electric force... is always proportional to the electric charge... We call the factor of proportionality the electric field so... Electric force... = Electric charge... x Electric field

Dreams of a Final Theory (1992; 2nd edition 1994)

 * The years since the mid-1970s have been the most frustrating in the history of particle physics. We are paying the price of our own success: theory has advanced so far that further progress will require the study of processes at energies far beyond the reach of existing facilities. In order to break out of this impasse, physicists began in 1982 to develop plans for a scientific project of unprecedented size and cost, known as the Superconducting Super Collider.
 * page 4, 2nd edition

 * It is with Isaac Newton that the modern dream of a final theory really begins.
 * page 11, 2nd edition

 * The last thirty years of Einstein's life were largely devoted to a search for a so-called unified field theory that would unify James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism with the general theory of relativity, Einstein's theory of gravitation. Einstein's attempt was not successful, and with hindsight we can now see that it was misconceived. Not only did Einstein reject quantum mechanics; the scope of his effort was too narrow. ... Nevertheless Einstein's struggle is our struggle today. It is the search for a final theory.
 * page 18, 2nd edition

 * The best military historians in fact do recognize the difficulty in stating rules of generalship. They do not speak of a science of war, but rather of a pattern of military behavior that cannot be taught or stated precisely but that somehow or other sometimes helps in winning battles. This is called the art of war. In the same spirit I think that one should not hope for a science of science, the formulation of any definite rules about how scientists do or ought to behave, but only aim at a description of the sort of behavior that historically has led to scientific progress—an art of science.
 * Chap. 5 : Tales of Theory and Experiment

Scientist: Four golden lessons (2003)
"Scientist: Four golden lessons", Nature (27 November 2003)
 * I managed to get a quick PhD — though when I got it I knew almost nothing about physics. But I did learn one big thing: that no one knows everything, and you don't have to.

 * Another lesson to be learned, to continue using my oceanographic metaphor, is that while you are swimming and not sinking you should aim for rough water.

 * As you will never be sure which are the right problems to work on, most of the time that you spend in the laboratory or at your desk will be wasted. If you want to be creative, then you will have to get used to spending most of your time not being creative, to being becalmed on the ocean of scientific knowledge.

 * Finally, learn something about the history of science, or at a minimum the history of your own branch of science. The least important reason for this is that the history may actually be of some use to you in your own scientific work.

The Atheism Tapes (2004)

 * Interview in 2003, broadcast as Episode 2

 * Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.

 * Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like God because I don't believe in God, but in the same sense that I don't like Iago, or the Reverend Slope or any of the other villains of literature, the god of traditional Judaism and Christianity and Islam seems to me a terrible character. He's a god who will... who obsessed the degree to which people worship him and anxious to punish with the most awful torments those who don't worship him in the right way. Now I realise that many people don't believe in that any more who call themselves Muslims or Jews or Christians, but that is the traditional God and he's a terrible character. I don't like him.

 * I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it... and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

 * There is one constant that seems to be fine tuned...and that is dark energy.

 * I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but just... you know after a while you get tired of hearing clergymen giving the invocation at various public celebrations and you feel, haven't we outgrown all this? Do we have to listen to this?

Preface
This book is the result. Its aim... self-contained explanations of the ideas and formulas... used and tested in modern cosmological observations.
 * In 1999 I finished my three volume book on the quantum theory of fields (..."QTF"), and... set... the task of learning... the theory underlying the great progress in cosmology in the previous two decades. ...Review articles ...gave good summaries of the data, but ...often quoted formulas without ...derivation, and sometimes ...without reference to the original derivation. Occasionally the formulas were wrong, and extremely difficult for me to rederive. ...[O]riginal ...articles sometimes had gaps in their arguments, or relied on hidden assumptions, or used unexplained notation. Often massive computer programs had taken the place of analytic studies. In many cases... it was easiest to work out the relevant theory myself.

 * I have tried... to present analytic calculations of cosmological phenomena, and not just report results obtained elsewhere by numerical computation. The calculations... in the literature... necessarily take many details into account, which either make an analytic treatment impossible, or obscure the main physical features of the calculation. Where this is the case, I have not hesitated to sacrifice some degree of accuracy for greater transparency.

 * So much has happened in cosmology since the 1960s that this book... bears little resemblance to... Gravitation and Cosmology. On occasion I refer back to (..."G&C") for material that does not seem worth repeating... Classical general relativity has not changed much since 1972 (apart from a great strengthening of its experimental verification) so it did not seem necessary to cover gravitation... I provide a brief introduction in Appendix B. Other appendices deal with technical material... I have also supplied a glossary of symbols...

 * I decided to exclude material that was highly speculative... cosmological theory in higher dimensions... anthropic reasoning... holographic cosmology... conjectures about the details of inflation, or many other new ideas. ...The present book is largely concerned with ...mainstream cosmology: ...inflation driven by one or more scalar fields ...followed by a big bang dominated by radiation,, baryonic matter, and.

 * Where I knew them I have included references to... the Cornell archive, ...arxiv.org, as well as to the published literature. ...I have quoted the latest measurements of cosmological s known to me, in part... to give the reader a sense of what is... observationally possible. ...I have not tried to combine measurements from observations of different types because... it would [not] add... additional physical insight and any... cosmological concordance would... soon be out of date.

 * I hope the readers will let me know of any mistakes... I will post them on... zippy.ph.utexas.edu/~weinberg/corrections.html.

The Expansion of the Universe

 * The visible universe seems the same in all directions... larger than about 300 million light years. The ... (...[~]one part in 105) in the cosmic microwave background... radiation... traveling... [~]14 billion years, supporting the conclusion...

 * Almost all of modern cosmology is based on this Robert-Walker metric, at least as a first approximation.

 * Consider the geometry of a three-dimensional homogeneous and isotropic space. ...[G]eometry is encoded in a metric $$g_{ij}(\mathbf{x})$$ (with i and j running over the three coordinate directions), or equivalently a line element $$ds^2 \equiv g_{ij} dx^i dx^j$$, with summation over repeated indices... $$ds$$ is the proper distance between $$\mathbf{x}$$ and $$\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{dx}$$, meaning... the distance measured by a surveyor who uses a... Cartesian [coordinate system] in a small neighborhood of... point $$\mathbf{x}$$.) One... homogeneous isotropic three-dimensional space with positive definite lengths is flat space, with line element $$ds^2=d\mathbf{x}^2$$ ...The coordinate transformations that leave this invariant are... ordinary three-dimensional rotations and translations. ...Another ...possibility is a four-dimensional with some radius $$a$$, with line element $$ds^2=d \mathbf{x}^2+dz^2,\;\;z^2 + \mathbf{x}^2 = a^2$$, ...Here the transformations that leave the line element invariant are four-dimensional rotations; the direction of $$\mathbf{x}$$ can be changed to any other direction by a four-dimensional rotation that does not change $$z$$. ...[T]he only other possibility (up to a coordinate transformation) is a hyperspherical surface in four-dimensional, with line element $$ds^2 = d\mathbf{x}^2 - dz^2,\;\;z^2 - \mathbf{x}^2 = a^2$$, ...where $$a^2$$ is (so far) an arbitrary positive constant. The coordinate transformations that leave this invariant are four-dimensional pseudo-rotations, just like s, but with $$z$$ instead of time.

\begin{cases} +1 & \text{spherical} \\ -1 & \text{hyperspherical} \\ 0 & \text{Euclidean} \end{cases}$$ ...[W]e must take $$a^2>0$$... to have $$ds^2$$ positive at $$\mathbf{x}=0$$, and hence everywhere.
 * [In] the case of Euclidean space... $$ds^2 = a^2[d\mathbf{x}^2 + K \frac{(\mathbf{x} \cdot d\mathbf{x}^2)}{1-K\mathbf{x}^2}]$$ ...where $$K =

 * [T]o extend this to the geometry of spacetime... include a term... in the spacetime line element, with $$a$$ now an arbitrary function of time (known as the Robertson-Walker scale factor): $$d\tau^2 \equiv -g_{\mu\nu}(x) dx^\mu dx^\nu = dt^2-a^2(t)[d\mathbf{x}^2 + K \frac{(\mathbf{x} \cdot d\mathbf{x}^2)}{1-K\mathbf{x}^2}]$$

 * Consider... [the formula given by special relativity for the magnitude of the ] $$P \equiv m_0 \sqrt{g_{ij}\frac{dx^i}{d\tau}\frac{dx^j}{d\tau}}$$ ...where $$d\tau^2 = dt^2 - g_{ij} dx^i dx^j$$. [This holds because in] a locally inertial Cartesian coordinate system, for which $$g_{ij} = \delta_{ij}$$, we have $$d\tau = dt\sqrt{1 - \mathbf {v}^2}$$ where $$v^i = \frac{dx^i}{dt}$$... [The $$P$$] is evidently invariant under arbitrary changes in  the spatial coordinates, so we can evaluate it... in Robertson-Walker coordinates. ...[T]o save work ...adopt a spatial coordinate system in which the particle position is near the origin $$x^i = 0$$, where $$\tilde{g}_{ij} = \delta_{ij} + \mathit0(\mathbf{x})$$, and we can therefore ignore the purely spatial components of $$\Gamma_{jk}^i$$ of the . General relativity gives [the momentum]... with a metric $$g_{ij} = a^2(t)\delta_{ij}$$... $$P(t) \propto 1/a(t)$$ ... for any non-zero mass, however small... Hence, although for photons both $$m_0$$ and $$d\tau$$ vanish... [the momentum relation] is still valid.

 * [T]he property of being a geodesic is invariant under coordinate transformations... so the path of the photon or particle will... be a geodesic in any spatial coordinate system...

It may eventually become possible to measure the expansion rate $$H(t) \equiv \dot{a}(t)/a(t)$$ at times $$t$$ earlier than the present, by observing the change in very accurately measured redshifts of individual galaxies over times as short as a decade.
 * In 1929 Hubble announced... a "roughly linear" relation between and distance. ...His data points ...did not really support a linear relation. But in the early 1930s he had measured redshifts and distances out to the, with a redshift $$z \eqsim 0.02$$, corresponding to... 7,000 km/sec and a linear relation... was evident. The conclusion... the universe is really expanding. ...At the time of writing, the largest... $$z=6.96$$.

 * Modern cosmological theories can exhibit horizons of two... types. which limit the distances at which past events can be observed or at which it will ever be possible to observe future events. These are called Rindler s and s, respectively.
 * Ref: W. Rindler, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 116, 663 (1956).

 * [T]he distance at present is $$d_{\mathrm{max}}(t_0) = \frac{1}{H_0} \int_{0}^{1} \frac{dx}{x^2 \sqrt{\Omega_\Lambda+\Omega_K x^{-2}+\Omega_M x^{-3}}}$$ ...[T]here may have been a time before the radiation-dominated era in which there was nothing in the universe but, in which case the particle horizon distance would... be infinite. But as far as telescopic observations... [$$d_{max}(t_0)$$] gives the proper distance beyond which we cannot now see.

 * In the case where the universe does not recollapse, the proper distance to the is... $$d_{MAX}(t) = a(t) \int_{0}^{r_{MAX}(t)} \frac{dr}{\sqrt{1-Kr^2}} = a(t)\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{dt'}{a(t')}$$ ... In the absence of a cosmological constant, $$a(t)$$ grows like $$t^{\frac{2}{3}}$$, and the integral diverges, so there is no event horizon. But with a cosmological constant, $$a(t)$$ will eventually grow as exp($$Ht$$) with $$H = H_0 \Omega^{1/2}_\Lambda$$ constant and... an event horizon... approaches... $$d_{MAX}(\infty) = 1/H$$. As time passes all sources of light outside our gravitationally bound  will move beyond this... and become unobservable. The same is true for the quintessence theory... In that case $$a(t)$$ eventually grows as exp(const $$\times\, t^{2/{(2+\frac{\alpha}{2})}}$$), so for any $$\alpha \ge 0$$ the integral... [$$d_{MAX}(t)$$] converges.

Lectures on Quantum Mechanics (2012, 2nd ed. 2015)

 * The development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s was the greatest advance in physical science since the work of Isaac Newton. It was not easy; the ideas of quantum mechanics present a profound departure from ordinary human intuition. Quantum mechanics has won acceptance through its success. It is essential to modern atomic, molecular, nuclear, and elementary particle physics, and to a great deal of chemistry and condensed matter physics as well.
 * Preface

 * The principles of quantum mechanics are so contrary to ordinary intuition that they can best be motivated by taking a look at their prehistory.
 * Ch. 1: Historical Introduction

 * Perhaps the most important immediate consequence of Planck’s work was to provide long-sought values for atomic constants.
 * Ch. 1: Historical Introduction

 * Planck’s quantization assumption applied to the matter that emits and absorbs radiation, not to radiation itself. As George Gamow later remarked, Planck thought that radiation was like butter; butter itself comes in any quantity, but it can be bought and sold only in multiples of one quarter pound. It was Albert Einstein (1879–1955) who in 1905 proposed that the energy of radiation of frequency ν was itself an integer multiple of hν.
 * Ch. 1: Historical Introduction

 * In this derivation Bohr had relied on the old idea of classical radiation theory, that the frequencies of spectral lines should agree with the frequency of the electron’s orbital motion, but he had assumed this only for the largest orbits, with large n. The light frequencies he calculated for transitions between lower states, such as n=2 → n=1, did not at all agree with the orbital frequency of the initial or final state. So Bohr’s work represented another large step away from classical physics.
 * Ch. 1: Historical Introduction

 * Heisenberg’s starting point was the philosophical judgment, that a physical theory should not concern itself with things like electron orbits in atoms that can never be observed. This is a risky assumption, but in this case it served Heisenberg well.
 * Ch. 1: Historical Introduction

 * To start, we will consider a single particle moving in three space dimensions under the influence of a general central potential. Later we will specialize to the case of a Coulomb potential, and work out the spectrum of hydrogen. One other classic problem, the harmonic oscillator, will be treated at the end of this chapter.
 * Ch. 2: Particle States in a Central Potential

 * My own conclusion is that today there is no interpretation of quantum mechanics that does not have serious flaws. This view is not universally shared. Indeed, many physicists are satisfied with their own interpretation of quantum mechanics. But different physicists are satisfied with different interpretations. In my view, we ought to take seriously the possibility of finding some more satisfactory other theory, to which quantum mechanics is only a good approximation.
 * Ch. 3: General Principles of Quantum Mechanics

Quotes about Weinberg

 * Steven Weinberg is famous as a scientist, but he thinks deeply and writes elegantly about many other things besides science.… he is not only preeminent as a mathematical physicist. He has also made important contributions to the discussion of history and politics.
 * Freeman Dyson, ‘What Price Glory?’, The New York Review of Books (June 10, 2010)

 * Asked what single mystery, if he could choose, he would like to see solved in his lifetime, Weinberg doesn’t have to think for long: he wants to be able to explain the observed pattern of quark and lepton masses.
 * Matthew Chalmers from an interview:

 * Weinberg’s paper “A Model of Leptons”, published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) on 20 November 1967, determined the direction of high-energy particle physics through the final decades of the 20th century. Just two and a half pages long, it is one of the most highly cited papers in the history of theoretical physics. Its contents are the core of the Standard Model of particles physics, now almost half a century old and still passing every experimental test.
 * Frank Close in:

 * Here he unwittingly puts his finger on what I believe is the actual source of the near-century of discomfort and disagreement. There is an implicit assumption, shared by almost all physicists, that the scientist must be separated from the science. The usual appeals to measurement with classical outcomes, it seems to me, are unsuccessful attempts to objectify and impersonalize processes in which an individual scientist acts on and is reacted upon by the world. The collapse of the wavefunction after measurement represents nothing more than the updating of that scientist’s expectations, based on his or her experience of the world’s response to the measurement. Weinberg hopes to keep the scientist out of the laws of nature, but our chronic failure to agree on the meaning of quantum mechanics demonstrates the futility of his hope. Nor does Weinberg’s hope make sense to me. Science is a highly developed form of human language. Embedded in books and papers, it is a distillation of the communicated individual experiences of all scientists. Why insist that science should make no reference to the process that has established it? The laws of quantum mechanics are exactly the same for everyone who uses them. In that important sense they are entirely objective. If a scientific law involves both the scientist and the world, it does not mean that science can tell us nothing about people, as Weinberg mysteriously worries, any more than it means that science can tell us nothing about the world.
 * N. David Mermin, "Can the scientist play a role in the laws of physics?", Physics Today (01 January 2019)

 * By inclination, Weinberg is an extreme reductionist. But he is also a realist and acknowledges when something is not working the way he might want it to. In 1987 the arch-reductionist concluded that certain facts seemed to be inconsistent with any explanation based on the usual kind of mathematical reasoning. Instead, it seemed they might be true only because if they were not, we observers could not be here to observe them. Weinberg undoubtedly disliked such anthropic-principle explanations. But when, to his disappointment, he found that the anthropic principle might explain the apparent vanishing of the cosmological constant, he said so loudly and clearly, despite the great hostility of the physics community toward the principle.
 * Leonard Susskind:

 * ... I vividly remember sitting in front of Wheeler, who told me his opinion of the leading particle theorists at various major universities and ended with the pronouncement that Steve Weinberg was the best of the upcoming generation.
 * Anthony Zee:

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Neil Peart

Neil Peart (September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian musician, writer, lyricist, and drummer for the band Rush.

Rush Lyrics

 * How I prayed just to get away To carry me anywhere Sometimes the angels punish us By answering our prayers -- Carnies (2012)
 * ...if the music stops and there's only the sound of the rain All the hope and glory -- All the sacrifice in vain (And) If love remains, though everything is lost We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost -- Bravado (1991)
 * Like a steely blade in a silken sheath We don't see what they're made of They shout about love, but when push comes to shove They live for the things they're afraid of And the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them... - The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
 * Sometimes I freeze...until the light comes Sometimes I fly...into the night Sometimes I fight...against the darkness Sometimes I'm wrong...sometimes I'm right -- Freeze (Part IV of 'Fear') (2002)
 * Wave after wave Will flow with the tide And bury the world as it does Tide after tide Will flow and recede Leaving life to go on As it was... -- Natural Science (1980)
 * You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free. You won't get wise With the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dream might be. -- Something for Nothing (1976)

 * There's no bread, let 'em eat cake There's no end to what they'll take Flaunt the fruits of noble birth Wash the salt into the earth -- Bastille Day (1975)
 * All the same we take our chances, Laughed at by time, tricked by circumstances, Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, The more that things change, the more they stay the same. -- Circumstances (1978)
 * A scorching blast of golden fire as it slowly leaves the ground Tears away with a mighty force The air is shattered by the awesome sound -- Countdown (1982)
 * Features distorted in the flickering light Faces are twisted and grotesque Silent and stern in the sweltering night The mob moves like demons possessed Quiet in conscience, calm in their right Confident their ways are best -- Witch Hunt (Part III of 'Fear') (1981)
 * I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now. -- Time Stand Still (1987)
 * Today is different, and tomorrow the same. It's hard to take the world the way that it came. Too many rapids keep us sweeping along. Too many captains keep on steering us wrong. It's hard to take the heat. It's hard to lay blame. To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. -- Second Nature (1987)
 * Faith is cold as ice. Why are little ones born only to suffer for the want of immunity, or a bowl of rice? Well, who would hold a price on the heads of the innocent children if there's some immortal power to control the dice? -- Roll The Bones (1991)
 * You move me, you move me. with your buildings and your eyes Autumn woods and Winter skies. You move me, you move me. Open sea and city lights, busy streets and dizzy heights. You call me, you call me. -- The Analog Kid (1982)
 * The middle aged madonna calls her neighbor on the phone. Day by day, the seasons pass and leave her life alone. But she'll go walking out that door on some bright afternoon to go and paint big cities from a lonely attic room. -- Middletown Dreams (1985)
 * Miracles will have their claimers More will bow to Rome He and she are in the house But there's only me at home. -- Anagram (For Mongo) (1989)
 * I feel the sense of possibilities I feel the wrench of hard realities The focus is sharp in the city -- The Camera Eye (1981)
 * It takes a little more persistence to get up and go the distance I'm not giving in I'm not missing out I'm not giving up on implausible dreams -- The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)
 * Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone -- Subdivisions (1982)
 * Cast in this unlikely role Ill-equipped to act With insufficient tact One must put up barriers To keep oneself intact -- Limelight (1981)
 * No hero in your tragedy, No daring in your escape, No salutes for your surrender, Nothing noble in your fate, Christ, what have you done? -- The Pass (1989)
 * The world weighs on my shoulders But what am I to do? You sometimes drive me crazy But I worry about you I know it makes no difference To what you’re going through But I see the tip of the iceberg And I worry about you... -- Distant Early Warning (1984)
 * Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasies But most of us just dream about the things we'd like to be Sadder still to watch it die, then never to have known it For you, the blind who once could see The bell tolls for thee... -- Losing It (1982)
 * Anarchist reactionary, running-dog revisionist Hindu, Muslim, Catholic creation, evolutionist Rational, romantic, mystic, cynical, idealist Minimal expressionist, post-modern neo-symbolist Armchair rocket scientist, graffiti existentialist Deconstruction primitive performance photo-realist Be-bop or a one-drop or a hip-hop, lite-pop-metallist Gold adult contemporary, urban country capitalist -- You Bet Your Life (1991)
 * I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate, Are the liberators here? Do I hope or do I fear? For my father and my brother, it’s too late but I must help my mother stand up straight. Are we the last ones left alive? Are we the only human beings to survive?  -- Red Sector A (1984)
 * Wheels can take you around. Wheels can cut you down. We can go from boom to bust. From dreams to a bowl of dust. We can fall from rockets' red glare, down to "Brother can you spare..." Another war. Another wasteland. And another lost generation -- Between The Wheels (1984)
 * I set a course just east of Lyra And northwest of Pegasus Flew into the light of Deneb Sailed across the Milky Way On my ship, the 'Rocinante' Wheeling through the galaxies Headed for the heart of Cygnus Headlong into mystery -- Cygnus X-1, Book One; The Voyage (1977)
 * They say there are strangers who threaten us In our immigrants and infidels They say there is strangeness too dangerous In our theaters and bookstore shelves That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves -- Witch Hunt (Part III of 'Fear') (1980)
 * Now there's no more oak oppression For they passed a noble law And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe and saw -- The Trees (1978)
 * Imagine a man when it all began The pilot of 'Enola Gay' Flying out of the shockwave on that August day All the powers that be, and the course of history Would be changed forevermore -- Manhattan Project (1985)
 * We each pay a fabulous price For our visions of paradise But a spirit with a vision is a dream With a mission -- Mission (1987)
 * An ounce of perception, a pound of obscure Process information at half speed Pause, rewind, replay Warm memory chip Random sample, hold the one you need -- Vital Signs (1981)
 * A planet of playthings We dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceive The stars aren't aligned or the gods are maligned Blame is better to give than receive -- Freewill (1980)
 * Life is just a candle, and a dream must give it flame... -- The Fountain of Lamneth (1975)
 * Danger plus survival equals fun. --From A Work in Progress
 * All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies. Living in their pools they soon forget about the sea... -- Natural Science (1980)
 * A few guys with guns can spoil everything. -- The Masked Rider (1996)
 * Everything in moderation, with occasional excess -- Ghost Rider (2002)
 * To you, is it movement, or is it action? Is it contact or just reaction? And you, revolution, just resistance? Is it living, or just existence? -- The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)
 * Adventures suck when you're having them. -- Roadshow (2006)
 * How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit -- Turn The Page (1987)
 * Life is like an aimless river The time is now again -- Ceiling Unlimited (2002)
 * No one gets to their heaven without a fight -- Armor and Sword (2007)
 * Quick to judge -- Quick to anger -- Slow to understand Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand -- Witch Hunt (Part III of 'Fear') (1981)
 * When we are young Wandering the face of the Earth Wondering what our dreams might be worth Learning that we're only immortal For a limited time -- Dreamline (1991)
 * Unstable condition A symptom of life In mental and environmental change Atmospheric disturbance The feverish flux Of human interface and interchange -- Vital Signs (1981)
 * You can surrender Without a prayer But never really pray Pray without surrender You can fight Without ever winning But never ever win Without a fight -- Resist (1996)

Other

 * Genius is the fire that lights itself. -Commenting on Buddy Rich.
 * The secret to life is, you get up in the morning, and you go to work - from the book Travelling Music
 * I can't play to that! - on Rock Band
 * Among the people whose thinking I like is Ayn Rand, but there are a whole lot of others. It's a kind of disciple mentality that people are applying to me that they think I applied to her and it's all wrong. I'm nobody's disciple and you know 'No god, no government' none of that, so I don't like it applied to me any more than to them.
 * I define my approach to each day I am given as, "What is the most excellent thing I can do today?" – from the book "Far and Near: On Days Like These"

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I've added just a couple of quotes from songs I thought were good. Could somebody add some quotes from his books, and perhaps some more lyrics at some point? I don't have time or the resources at the moment.

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I strongly disagree with the redirect from Rush. Neil Peart is not the only member of the band, and he is not even the sole songwriter. I agree he is a great lyricist and author, but what about the other members? --Teabeard 14:16, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

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Roseanne

 * Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Main

Roseanne (1988–1997, 2018) was a television sitcom, airing on ABC, about a blue collar family with a humorous backbone, through the trials of life, marriage, raising a family, and making ends meet. On May 29, 2018, Roseanne was cancelled after 1 season. The Conners premiered on October 16, 2018.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6
 * Season 7
 * Season 8
 * Season 9
 * Season 10

Cast

 * Roseanne Barr - Roseanne Conner (seasons 1–10)
 * John Goodman - Dan Conner
 * Laurie Metcalf - Jackie Harris
 * Sara Gilbert - Darlene Conner
 * Lecy Goranson - Becky Conner (seasons 1–5; season 8; season 10)
 * Sarah Chalke - Becky Conner (seasons 6–7; season 9), Andrea (season 10)
 * Michael Fishman - DJ Conner
 * Glenn Quinn - Mark Healy (seasons 3-9)
 * Johnny Galecki - David Healy
 * Estelle Parsons - Bev Harris
 * Natalie West - Crystal Anderson
 * Martin Mull - Leon Carp
 * Michael O'Keefe - Fred
 * Fred Willard - Scott
 * Sandra Bernhard - Nancy Bartlett

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