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“Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”

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Max Planck, born on April 23, 1858 in Germany, died on October 4, 1947. He was a renowned German physicist and one of the founders of quantum theory, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for his discovery of Planck's constant. more

“The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.”

Needs Children Self Done Jobs Form Parent Watches Generations Achieve Lessons One Day Raises Illness Graves Assumption Mortality Satisfying Evident Autonomy Just Do It Coffins

Author:Alain de Botton

“You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.”

Winning Race Design Thirds Commit Drivers Racing Fourth Fifth Racing Driver

Author:Ayrton Senna

“Shane it came back to her in a dizzy rush how he'd stopped her on the way into this place, in the faint dawn of light 'i wnt you to promise me one thing. promise me you'll marry me. Not now. Someday.”

Way Light One Thing Promise Dawn Someday Shane Marry Me Dizzy Promise Me

Book:Black Dawn

Source: Black Dawn

“Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?”

Littles Graves Staying Why Not Buried Cemetery

Book:Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“Love rarely waits for permission.”

Waiting Permission

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Bill said, "She is mine." I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said "Sookie!" in shocked admonishment. "I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself," Eric said softly.”

Ifs Thinking Said Hands Moving Mines Bills Raised Laughed Gestures Shocked Eric

Book:Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

“The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.”

Long Remember Pearls

Book:The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel

Source: The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel

“You have your words, and I have mine.”

Mines

Author:Peter Shaffer

“Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.”

Seeing

Author:Nicholas Sparks

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