Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital. - Murray Gell-Mann

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Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as if her veins were full of wine.

Murray Gell-Mann

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

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If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.

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My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?

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If you know the wavefunction of the universe, why aren't you rich?

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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

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Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect

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