

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King

“Only fools want to be great.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― The Road
― The Road

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“Years after Planck's death in 1947, at the age of 89, his former student and colleague James Franck recalled watching his hopeless struggle 'to avoid quantum theory, whether he could not at least make the influence of quantum theory as little as it could possibly be'.It was clear to Franck that Planck 'was a revolutionary against his own will' who 'finally came to the conclusion, "It doesn't help. We have to live with quantum theory. And believe me, it will expand."' It was a fitting epitaph for a reluctant revolutionary.”
― Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
― Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
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