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When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. ↗

— Edward Witten

#beyond #blocks #building #building blocks #equipment

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

#better #black #black holes #field #holes

The limits of my language means the limits of my world. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#limits #means #world

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#could #entirely #good #jokes #philosophical

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#him #lion #talk #understand

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#doctrine #logic #transcendental #world

The world is the totality of facts, not of things. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#things #totality #world

Golf, like measles, should be caught young. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

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