#ike

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#been #chose #i #ice #like

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested. ↗

— Edward Witten

#happen #how #i #i can #likely

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. ↗

— Edward Witten

#classical #einstein #gravity #history #long

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#everything #found #grammar #harmony #language

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#astride #bad #good #good nature #horse

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#adjustment #combination #does #door #each

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#keyboard #like #note #striking #uttering

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#fresh #ground #like #new #new word

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#cheap #like #memories #restaurant #soup

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. ↗