Quotes of Gossamer - somelinesforyou

“ On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ”

- Douglas Horton

“ A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ”

- Monica Baldwin

“ There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities — potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry — that was a sublime experience… ”

- Gregory Benford Timescape

“ There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe
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