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"My trajectory towards fundamental physics was not straightforward."

"I started with Medicine as my parents are both medical doctors, this path was not for me though."

"At the library of the university, I discovered the physics textbooks and fell in love with the topic instantly."

"I am a particle physicist and a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN."

"LHCb is one of the four experiments located on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN."

"One of the primary roles of this experiment is to study the difference between matter and anti-matter as well as search for signatures of particles beyond the Standard Model."

"Particle physics is a discipline that requires a very diverse set of skills, there is room for people with many interests."

"Some may prefer detectors building, data processing, data analysis, machine learning, phenomenology and/or collaboration with theorists."

"What we bring to society is subtle, there is really an urge to continue to understand fundamental concepts of nature."

"Some of the questions we try to address on everyday basis may seem disconnected from daily matters and to some extent they are."

"The heart of fundamental physics is to push further human knowledge, even if maybe we face too many meetings and compilation errors."

"There is a high level of training of young PhD students."

"The Run 3 of the LHC is also starting now, so the next coming months will be very challenging and exciting for me and for all our community."

"Dedicated to the learning and memorization and recollection of the Qur’an, he had privileged access to the Word."

"He was present at births, and his presence was also required this time in a group to accompany the deceased."

"He acted as an arbiter in cases of marital disputes and family conflicts."

"In the Aurès, he played a decisive role in the summer pilgrimage ritual, in the cult of the minor saints, and in the sacrifice that was then performed."

"His presence legitimized the ceremony, through the role he played in channeling the sacred."

"He therefore held a liturgical function, something that the schoolteacher would never assume thereafter."

"There was no priestly hierarchy either for Greece as a whole or for single cantons; not even among priests of the same in different cantons was there organized coöperation. Some popular or oracle might win more than local prestige and secure the protection and support of various neighboring states, but there the drift toward centralization and organization found its limit. At no time did there exist an organized authority which could formulate standards of faith or dictate the usages of religious etiquette. Ritual, seeking that which in matter and manner was believed to be well pleasing to the , followed the traditions of the individual shrines, and there were no better theologians than the poets."

"Viewing history in the large, we cannot fail to see that the world we live in is essentially a . All its fundamental forms and moulds for law and government, art, architecture, and literature, thought and faith., were created beside the Mediterranean; all its political and religious struggles, all its wars, were the fighting over of old Mediterranean questions; and as a system of types and forms, it never can be really understood and known except as it be reduced to Mediterranean terms, and studied in the perspective of a Roman, Greek, or Syrian horizon."

"No single personality, excepting the carpenter's son of Nazareth, has done so much to make the world of civilisation we live in what it is as Alexander of Macedon. He leveled the terrace upon which built. Whatever lay within the range of his conquests contributed its part to form that Mediterranean civilisation which, under Rome's administration, became the basis of European life."

"The rate at which your knowledge will ripen into wisdom depends in considerable part upon your distinguishing what is important and what is relatively unimportant. Some people seem never to know any difference between the s and the s."

"I was actively involved internally as a social change agent, as an inclusion and equity change agent."

"I accidentally stumbled into this gap that wasn’t being filled and decided to create an organization to fill it."

"I saw an opportunity to focus all of the knowledge and connections that I’d gained into creating this pipeline of founders, as opposed to just a pipeline of tech talent, and to create a pathway for more economic inclusion by opening up opportunities for founders from marginalized communities."

"It’s crucial to ensure that the multitude of advancements unfolding over the next century that profoundly impact humanity are fueled by a rich diversity of thoughts and ideas. This diversity will be the driving force behind innovations that not only create opportunities but also uplift and support all of humanity."

"Absolutely. I think it appropriately describes how I have approached my work throughout my career to some extent but most certainly reflects my journey this past decade."

"I would say yes—to a degree. I would say unequivocally that out of all those different ­industries—chemical, consumer, manufacturing—the industry that I felt most connected to in my work was the ­pharmaceutical and biotech industry, especially in the years that I worked at Genentech because of the nature of the work that we were doing—and its alignment with my core ­values of utilizing technology and science to do good in the world."

"“Focus on results, and you can't go wrong.""

"Pricing is at the discretion of the retailer. Price negotiations are always going to be robust. They're always going to be challenging."

"We've got to stay really close to where the consumers are."

"We're in danger of seeing a real commoditisation of categories, and actually what the customer is saying over and over again is that they are looking for value AND quality."

"Our customers don't thank us for growing market share of the same-sized pie. The marketplace has to evolve by us coming up with innovation and new benefits that will grow the size of that pie."

"“We’ve had recessions before but this one is different because it’s accelerating the change in the relationship between consumers, citizens and companies.”"

"“Consumers are waiting for offers and sales which they know to expect. DIY and cutting out the middle man is a growing trend. But falling living standards have not been accompanied by falling aspirations – consumers still have the same high personal aspirations – they still want to look and feel as good as they can.”"

"“By 2025 there will be around 3bn people short of water. This means ‘business as usual‘ is not an option and profound changes to our business approach and business model are needed.”"

"“When small actions are taken by millions of people they really can deliver significant change.”"

"Unlike joy, which is a momentary experience, localized in specific times and reasons, happiness perhaps has a more general meaning. Aristotle warned that a life can only be judged happy after it has been fulfilled. I would also use another formula, which I like very much and which says: happy is that life which realizes in maturity (or old age) the dream of youth."

"The path of speech (mythos odoio) (by Parmenides) contains within itself the path of day and that of night. It is no coincidence that Parmenides' poem comprises two parts. What exactly the second part contains and why it is so is an ancient philological and exegetical problem that we will not address here and which Plato already denounced in its ambiguity. In fact, it is not possible to separate being and speech without identifying them, and it is not possible to identify them without, ipso facto, separating them. The “simulation” (the simul) is immediate and structural. Human beings are simulators precisely because they are beings of truth. They cannot tell the truth without lying and vice versa. In this sense, they are beings of mediation, beings that stand in the middle, as you happily recall, that is, beings that ‘work’ to translate immediate experience into knowledge, or into a transferential process. God and nature do not work, but human beings do, first and foremost in naming the fruit of sexuality; it then places humans in the relational milieu of parents and children, brothers and sisters, offered, either really or symbolically, in sacrifice to God, that is, to the community of speakers. [...] The 20th century cannot exist without Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis cannot exist without philosophy, at least in my opinion."

"When I say that truth is “relatively absolute,” I mean that the search for truth, which we cannot renounce, always takes place within a relationship. And truth, being dynamic in turn, arouses in us a moral duty, an uninterrupted questioning that can never be satisfied with a particular piece of knowledge."

"Vico and Foscolo had already warned us: where there is a tomb, there is civilization, which presupposes a community between the living and the dead. It is the horizon of celebration and the sacred, and it is the understanding of how end and beginning are inextricably linked. Knowledge, in itself, usually marks the end of an adventure, placing itself in the moment when Orpheus turns to look at Eurydice, sees her, and, seeing her, loses her forever."

"The truth is that the third pole has worked on several occasions to break up the alliance between the PD and the M5S in order to increase its position, and the M5S currently believes that going it alone will strengthen its policy choices."

"The entire Western tradition originated there, in the sense that Socratic doubt is the passive non-acceptance of tradition. His question is why? It is a transcendental question, it is beyond the boundaries, it is not understood by his contemporaries. What he asks of his contemporaries is not within their perspective, within their possibility. Socrates always wants the definition of things “ti esti” and they always respond with myth. But he is not understood, even when he plays on the issue of ignorance “I know that I know nothing,” he actually knows."

"We must realize that human work is continuous transformation and therefore constantly involves approaching limits and crossing boundaries. Otherwise, we simply have experts and not researchers. Only researchers are up to the task of humanization and therefore of truly human wisdom, not simply disciplinary knowledge captured by very particular, private interests."

"Socrates is a man of writing. He says of himself, “I do not read,” but in reality he does not read because when he went to read, he did not find what he was looking for in books. But he is certainly someone who searches for the concept of what justice is. In a world of orality, justice does not exist. There are meaningful phrases, meaningful behaviors, rituals, stories, and myths. in order to have justice, I must have written it down with the alphabet, then I can isolate it and say ‘what is it?’. So we realize that philosophy is the product of a very precise human practice, and I insist on the question of writing. Even Socrates' famous phrase in court, “a life without inquiry is not worth living,” belongs to a certain type of man."

"Ultimately, the last word is never ours. Peirce said: the meaning of my life is entrusted to others. [...] Which proves that truth is never something definitive; we are always mistaken. On a journey. It is no coincidence that I speak of the “transit of truth.”"

"(About Greek philosophy and Christianity) In these philosophies or worldviews, there is an idea of perfection that has caused damage and misunderstanding. And all this arose from the claim to entrust writing with the pivotal role on which the West based its knowledge."

"The introduction of writing changes our perception of the world. The Logos, of which the Greeks speak, could not exist without writing. Interviewer: Why? Carlo Sini: For the simple reason that all writing has a medium that is outside the body of the speaker. Writing—unlike speech—presents us with objective knowledge that must be interpreted. When it is the voice that transmits knowledge, there is no separation or distance between what we say and the world that receives it and of which we are a part. In writing, on the other hand, we can recognize that objective root that will develop with science. It is a continuity. Without alphabetic and mathematical writing—which are forms of writing for everyone—we would not have had the universal and therefore science. The universal—which the Greeks called Logos—has determined the course of Western knowledge."

"Either we are part of that reality or it is illusory to think we know it. Interviewer: Yet, if I could not distinguish myself from external reality, in the same way, I could not know it. Carlo Sini: Fair objection. In the sense that we are part of reality while distinguishing ourselves from it. We are part of the truth, but we are not the truth. Interviewer: A nice paradox. So what are we? Carlo Sini: We are in the difference of knowledge, or rather we are in what I call “being in error.” Truth and error are, in a way, two sides of the same coin."