“ It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ”
- George Wald- Copy
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“ The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language. ”
- Werner Heisenberg- Copy
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“ The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see: Those be rubies, fairy favors; In those freckles live their savors. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine. ”
- Ernest Rutherford- Copy
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“ How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
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“ You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation. ”
- Rene Daumal- Copy
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“ In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not… ”
- Primo Levi- Copy
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“ FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Faith is something we grow into; doubt is something we grow out of. Gradually. And the movement is not always forward — out of doubt into faith. It is a line that wavers. As the picture a partially filled cup, we sometimes speculate: is the cup half full, or half empty? If we see faith as the contents of the cup, is it half full of faith, or half full of doubt? And if we look at the cup — our experience — and see one-half doubt, is doubt all we see? As God looks at the half-full, half-empty cup, what does He see? The doubt? Or the faith? Or, if faith is nearly a tiny seed — say, a mustard seed — can God see it? Is He moved by it? Or is He too busy gazing at the ample doubt that may surround that speck of faith? We know the answer: God sees such faith… ”
- James Long- Copy
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“ Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck And peered through darkness. Ah! that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck — A light! A light! A light! A light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world It's greatest lesson: On! sail on! ”
- Joaquin Miller- Copy
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“ Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course… ”
- Norton Juster- Copy
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“ A clear night sky and a little instruction allows anyone to soar in mind and imagination to the farthest reaches of an enormous universe in which we are but a speck. And there is nothing more exhilarating and humbling than that. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ The government is a bunch of whores. Look at the people who pay to elect the government. Small farmers or cooperative activists do not pay anything other than a microscopic speck of the money spent to elect Congress. ”
- Jerry Brown- Copy
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