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"The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself."
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"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
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"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."
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"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."
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"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
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"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
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"'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else."
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"I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!"
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"My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors."
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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
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"Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't."
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"If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it."
Morality
"Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion."
Direction
"As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on."
Consistency
"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality."
Beauty
"People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that."
People
"My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go."
Time
"And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about."
People
"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions."
Theory
"The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself."
Idea
"In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature."
Nature
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