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"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
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"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
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"Familiarity breeds contempt."
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"When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes."
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"Familiarity breeds contempt."
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"Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity."
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"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."
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"When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable."
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"I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe."
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"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."
Answers
"If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake."
Right
"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
Theory
"We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?"
Cats
"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"
Universe
"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
Familiarity
"No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail."
Relativity
"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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