"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."

Enthusiasm, Depression, Disappointment

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"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."

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"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."

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"It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself."

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"What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me."

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"If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it."

Physics, Talk

"When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one."

Time, Listening, May, Sharing

"I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results."

Result, Results

"I do not keep up with the details of particle physics."

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"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."

Astronomy, Sky

"Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special."

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"In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it."

Behavior, Effect, Fact, Measure

"If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability."

Universe,

"You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars."

Science, Time, Thought, Stars

"So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history."

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