“Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf”
“Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.”
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 280
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“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
Variant: You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are

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"An Interview with Carver Mead", American Spectator, Sep/Oct2001, Vol. 34 Issue 7, p68.

Quoted in "Heath Ledger's Lonesome Trail" http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/9448111/heath_ledgers_lonesome_trail/print, Rolling Stone, March 23, 2006.
Principles of Modern Chemistry (7th ed., 2012), Ch. 5 : Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Structure

“Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge — and a very good dodge too.”
The Nature of the Physical World (1928)

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Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)

“Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”
"Sorrows Succeed". Compare: "One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7.
Hesperides (1648)