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"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
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"Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark."
"Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate."
"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
"You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful."
"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."
"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous."
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
"I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity."
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