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“Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.”

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George Russell

George Russell was a renowned jazz pianist and composer, born on June 23, 1923, in New York, USA. His musical career spanned over half a century, and he was known for his unique musical style and contributions to jazz. more

“More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.”

Littles Given Special Theory Argument Critics Logical Given Up Relativity Bait Supposition Ploy Artefacts

Author:Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

“It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.”

Should Done Bears Degrees Intelligent Remove Display Appendix Highly Intelligent Nonchalance Alacrity

Author:Daniel S. Greenberg

“The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.”

Made Stills Bits Community Poverty Council Rapids Affluence Ascent Nouveau Riche

Book:The Politics of Pure Science

Source: The Politics of Pure Science

“You could live it up and be successful, but it wouldn't mean anything without love and friends. I could go broke and still be happy because love is all I need.”

Needs Mean Stills Love Is Successful Broke Being Successful Without Love Live It Up

Author:Omarion

“Don't be afraid to show who you are.”

Shows Who You Are

Author:Omarion

“One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.”

Ifs Littles Remember Memories Cry Despair Photograph Impression Surviving Stirring

Author:W. G. Sebald

“I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.”

Believe I Believe Black White Photograph Life And Death Zone Gray Territory Black And White Between Life And Death

Author:W. G. Sebald

“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.”

Ifs Trying Moments Reality Night Speak Memories Middle Paper Shadow Exposed Middle Of The Night Darkening

Book:Austerlitz

Source: Austerlitz

“In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.”

Ifs Way Stills Facts Kissing Photograph Stolen Stolen Kisses

Author:Edouard Boubat

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