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"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression."
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"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."

"Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside."

"Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?"

"When i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand."

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

"I like good strong words that mean something."

"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."

"My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy."

"I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more."
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"It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them."

"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too."

"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them."

"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression."
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