"You have to recognize the realities of the world, and the realities of the world tend to be unpleasant, discouraging and depressing.
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Paul Dirac
Submitted by cvining on
I do not see how a man can work at the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand.