“If you really want to contribute to our theoretical understanding of physical laws — and it is an exciting experience if you succeed! — there are many things you need to know. First of all, be serious about it!”

How to become a good theoretical physicist http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html

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Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner 1946

Christoffer Boe (1974) Danish filmmaker

Quoted in Fade to Black: Christoffer Boe http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mag/video_fade_black_31/, interview with Darroch Greer, Millimeter (September 1, 2004)

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

Jerome David Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye

Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 1, opening sentence

“If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

“Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it — you know, get excited about it — and second, that you have fun with it.”

Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) American physicist

Why Is It So?, episode 1 (1963) http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/whyisitso/, Australian ABC Television show <br class="br">Context: Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it — you know, get excited about it — and second, that you have fun with it. That's important. Otherwise, you see, your work becomes nothing but an idle chore. Then, you hate the life you live.