Quotes About Duality

Remember, that the darkness is not bad, just different, and all that is good, or bad, is there in the light, or the dark, only our perception changes.

There was something a little frightening about a man who knew he was not a nice person and didn't give a damn. It went against everything America holds dear.

How do you divide yourself between killing people and loving them? The best I had on that one was just to kill the bad guys, and love the good guys, and hope the two lists never crossed.

I can't tell anymore when I'm asleep and when I'm awake, or which is worse.

Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both.

Great system: the poison and the antidote come in the same bottle

I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that's where belief lies and art as well.

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

Science is not inherently good.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

To fall for the notion of a 'double truth' and argue there was one set of truths for reason and another for faith and never the two shall meet made nonsense of the idea of truth itself.

As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.

The problem with heroes and villains is that it's not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.

Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.

You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.