Welcome to my homepage.
My email address is nejat.anbarci@durham.ac.uk
On other pages you can find (i) my detailed CV, and (ii) the list of my publications and some of my current work.
Below is a select set of my favorite quotes:
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." Stephen Hawking
"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." John Archibald Wheeler
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Albert Einstein
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Albert Einstein
"People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research." Albert Einstein
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." George E.P. Box
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." The words are attributed to social activist and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
"Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources." Abba Eban
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas A. Edison
"When you lose, don't lose the lesson." Dalai Lama
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win [or are successful], and you're never as bad as they say when you lose [or are unsuccessful]." Lou Holtz
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." Aristotele
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” Coco Chanel