Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"Connection is the essence of life."
John Wheeler
"In science, as in life, the journey matters far more than the destination."
David Gross
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"Life itself is the greatest physics experiment ever conducted."
George Zweig
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"In science, as in life, the journey matters more than certainty."
George Zweig
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Robert Wilson
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"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Robert Wilson
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"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Robert Wilson
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"May you live every day of your life."
Robert Wilson
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"Life is a constant conversation between what we are and what we might become."
Maarten Schmidt
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"Life's meaning is not found; it is created."
Maarten Schmidt
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"Life is precious and should be lived fully and consciously."
Freeman Dyson
"The cosmos teaches us that understanding requires time, effort, and humility."
Antony Hewish
"In the cosmos, as in life, the journey matters more than arrival."
Antony Hewish
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"Useful principles for living: face reality squarely, adapt to it, and make the best of it."
John Wheeler
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"Life rewards those who ask the hard questions."
John Wheeler
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"Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."
Arno Penzias
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"Life is a process of self-improvement."
Arno Penzias
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"The pursuit of understanding is inherently noble and deeply human."
Murray Gell-Mann
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"Each person possesses an inner spark of consciousness that defies full explanation."
Roger Penrose
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"A good life is one in which you pursue excellence in everything you do."
Freeman Dyson
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"We are made of stardust, and we will return to stardust. In between, we have this marvelous gift of consciousness."
Freeman Dyson
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"The purpose of life is not happiness but meaning."
Freeman Dyson
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"Life is a conversation between possibility and actuality."
Freeman Dyson
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"Life is simultaneously more fragile and more resilient than we imagine."
Freeman Dyson
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"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
Robert Wilson
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Robert Wilson
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"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Robert Wilson
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Robert Wilson
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
Robert Wilson
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"Life itself is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe."
Fred Hoyle