Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. – Proverb
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They dont mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. – Edward Witten
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. – George Westinghouse
