Shevek

"Physics is the poetry of reality"

"The prison and the palace are built from the same stones"

"The sun shines on both sides of the wall"

"A society is only as free as its most oppressed"

"We are all strangers in the land of possession"

"Science seeks truth; society seeks power"

"The revolution eats its own children"

"Sacrifice without vision is merely suffering"

"In mathematics, as in life, elegance requires sacrifice"

"Greed is the root of all separation"

"To possess is to be separate"

"The future belongs to those who imagine it"

"The grass remembers where the wall divides it"

"The revolution must be perpetual or it becomes tyranny"

"We are made whole by what we give away"

"We are the people who refuse the chip in our brain"

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty"

"One cannot lose what one does not own"

"To make a gift must always be dangerous"

"You cannot own the world; you can only be part of it"

"Physics is not about power; it is about truth"

"We all carry our walls with us"

"To refuse is to choose"

"The greatest prison is the one we build in our minds"

"To understand another is to become another"

"The physicist must be free or his work is meaningless"

"The revolution eats its children"

"We dream of what we cannot have"

"The path of least resistance leads nowhere"

"Language itself is a wall between people"