"Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough."

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“To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.”

“Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.”

“A diatomic molecule is a molecule with one atom too many.”

“Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.”

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"They who have lost the Gift through ignorance or tyranny... will be neither glorified nor punished by the righteous Judge, as unsealed and yet not wicked, but persons who have suffered rather than don…"

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Religion

#justice

"If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it."

— Octavia Butler

Literature1947–2006

#faith

"Some people would rather drown our domes in blood than learn anything from history. Or learn anything at all."

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Literature1949

#knowledge

"My very, very first purchase was when I was about 12 or 13. My father used to take me wherever he went buying or selling anything from the age of eight, because amongst my other sisters and brothers I…"

— Nasser Khalili

Business1945

#art