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"It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top."
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"Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield."
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"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
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"The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired."
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"Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle."
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"Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics."
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"Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it."
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"In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons."
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"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
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"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
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"Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not."
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"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform."
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"It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine."
Dance
"I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!"
Time
"Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer."
Time
"I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things."
Body
"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."
Ballet
"You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case."
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"Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically."
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"Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words."
Body
"I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training."
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