Quotes from Rivka Galchen

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

He is my unicorn, though... That's how I felt falling in love with him, as if I'd found a creature of myth.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?