#black hole

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

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I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes. ↗

— Edward Witten

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It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ↗

— Gary Larson

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The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

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In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit. ↗

— Brian May

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The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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