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“My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."”

“Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.”

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Author:Tony Parsons

“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.”

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Book:House of Games: A Screenplay

Source: House of Games: A Screenplay

“He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”

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Author:J. D. Salinger