” People say, ‘I failed out of college! My life is over!’ Well, it’s not over. It depends on what you do with it. “
” You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it, we see it as a distortion of space. And space is enormously stiff. You can’t squish it, you can’t change its dimensions so easily. “
” Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don’t have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what’s going on in the universe. “
” The fact that this radiation is so penetrating – nothing stops it – makes it so you can look for things that you have never seen before, and you can look at things you know in a way that’s new. That is really the big step forward. “
” You think Earth’s gravity is really something when you’re climbing the stairs. But, as far as physics goes, it is a pipsqueak, infinitesimal, tiny little effect. “
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