Lost and Wanted
Nell Freudenberger
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We now know that our universe is almost certainly 13.77 billion years old, and that it expanded more than a trillion trillion times in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a second of its life.”
“I think we believed that what we'd achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.”
“I think that with most of our friends we choose how much of ourselves to reveal, and with a very select few it feels as if there is no choice.”
“I had an uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get in conversation with another person, as if the fundamental part of myself had evaporated-not in the sense of being gone, but as if it has undergone a phase transition and is hovering over my actual body as a vapor. That's the best I can describe it, as if my consciousness and my physical person are suddenly separated.”
“it was something harder to describe than that. We were on each other’s side in a way that felt permanent, and so it hurt more than it might have otherwise, when she decided to shut me out.”
“What do we get out of entering other people's suffering in art, when we often avoid it in life?”
“They forget how much they used to love their own parents,” she said, “when they were kids.”
“Physicists know that if you and I are sitting in a room together, you exert a gravitational force on me. It's almost nothing-I can't feel it-but it's the same force that binds our planet to our star.”
“One clue is that in pseudoscience, every piece fits neatly inside a theory and the scientist is never wrong.”
“I’ve never worked on quantum entanglement, which Einstein once dismissed as “spooky action at a distance.” It’s a real phenomenon, though, one that has less to do with communication than with a shared history that causes a pair of particles, even once they’ve been permanently separated, to behave as if they knew what each other was thinking.”
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Book Keywords:
detachment, disconnection
