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"Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion."
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"It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in."

"I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me."

"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction."

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

"You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself."

"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
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"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."


"Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes."


"If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it."


"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."


"Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much."


"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality."


"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."


"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."


"Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations."
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