I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say. . . something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand. Commenting to him about the poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote.
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.
You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,.