Bruce > Bruce's Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.”
― Sean Carroll

“At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time. It's a feeling we are all born with, although it often gets lost as we grow up and more mundane concerns take over our lives.”
― Sean Carroll, The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr