Long before they reached the required sensitivity to detect a neutron star–neutron star merger, the LIGO detectors observed a black hole–black hole merger about one billion light years away.
You need role models who fall down and pick themselves up. You need role models who show how even though you can't do everything, you can do some things.
Karen Uhlenbeck on being the first woman to receive the Abel Prize
Elias Boudinot was now rendered nameless—“the Indian,” the enemy . . . this marriage tested the boundaries of social inclusion and colonizer virtue.
Ann McGrath in Going Against History: Illicit Love and Intermarriage
[Ancient history] is a discipline in which truth and beauty don't always overlap. Truth is very often not beautiful. And beauty may be deceptive. And knowledge, well, it is very elusive. But ideas we do have. Many of them.
Angelos Chaniotis in the introduction to Kathleen Coleman's talk A Child Prodigy in Ancient Rome
