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 There’s a reason God gave us two ears and only one mouth. Listening is twice as important as talking. But he gave us ten fingers… he must really want us to poke things!

- Kenneth Parcel

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  And how long are we lost in this confusion, unable to exert our reason, to  possess our souls, or to rule our affections?

  What a troublesome employment is love!

Abelard's first letter to Heloise in the convent of Argenteuil.

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  The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

  - The Devil's Dictionary

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The four chapters devoted to this story unfortunately are also the ones covering the time of his great work on twistor theory, which gets somewhat buried amidst the not very dramatic unrequited love drama. 

For the years 1971-76, this book provides all the detail you could ever want about why Roger Penrose wanted to sleep with Judith Daniels and why she wasn’t interested. For the details of the story of one of the great breakthroughs in understanding the geometry of the physical world, we’re going to have wait for another book.

- Peter Woit, reviewing the recent biography of Roger Penrose.