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Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.

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Alfred North Whitehead

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

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The motive of success is not enough.

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

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Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.

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I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

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And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do--if there's enough of it--is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

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I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.

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