To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on … - Robert B. Laughlin

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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

Robert B. Laughlin

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

Firsts, Reading, Things, Work Out, Working

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The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

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Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control. . . Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone's permission or explaining itself.

Change, Government, Heal Itself, Legislation, Routinely, Weather

It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed[. . ].

Creative, Einsteins, Ironic, Space, Work

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

Asking, Obsessed, Person, Relieved, Truth Is, Ultimate

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

Development, Motivates, Profound, Thinking

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Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

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Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.

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Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.

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