#ted

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#did #half #i #late #learn

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. ↗

— Edward Witten

#brought #fuzziness #into #mechanics #physics

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

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#augustine #being #celebrated #ceremony #church

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#discovery #doing #enables #gives #i

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#cure #frenchman #gray #gray hair #guillotine

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#few #pile #reach #them #trusted

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. ↗

— James Wolcott

#back #children #considered #early #early age

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

#beauties #contain #fiction #globe #great