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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d523292 | It is only now and then in some very remote and backward agricultural district that an antiquarian may still discover a square house. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| cd719a7 | Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality; for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his.. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 764d9f1 | The whole of the Targum deserves study as shewing how textual ambiguity or corruption may combine with doctrinal prepossession to modify tradition; Chapter II, Section 2, Paragraph 1171 | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| b320ce9 | Few are the hearts whose happy lot it is at once to recognize in each other's voices the partner intended for them by Providence, and to fly into a reciprocal and perfectly harmonious embrace. With most of us the courtship is of long duration. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 7f11751 | There are some people men and women both who will never be happy no matter what the circumstances they find themselves. There's not enough money, no Castle grand enough, no life easy enough to content them. | Lynn Kurland | ||
| 436bcf4 | I can't tell you how nice it is to hear someone talking like the voices in my head," Abigail said, linking arms with Jessica and heading toward the battlement door. "You'll have to come visit--a lot. Miles will love it." "Did you tell him about me?" "He guessed." "He didn't!" "Not much gets past the man." | Lynn Kurland | ||
| eee9f4f | A man does not come at what is mine, harm it, and walk away unscathed. | Lynn Kurland | ||
| cffd8a5 | He threw open the shutters and was silent. "There," he said, pointing to a shooting star. "Wish to stay together. Hurry." She watched the star's arc fade and wished, secure in her love's embrace. "I wish that we'll be together forever," she whispered. He pressed his lips against her ear. "I wish that we'll be together forever," he echoed. "Now it can't help but come to pass." | Lynn Kurland | ||
| cfbd3a2 | Have you ever known there was something you needed to do, but found yourself dreading it with everything you were?" "Once or twice," he said. "What did you do?" Runach looked at her steadily. "I did what needed to be done." "Was the price steep?" "Very." Aisling clutched her own bow, wishing her task was nothing more than learning to place an arrow where she wanted it to land. "Did you ever want to run?" She whispered. He smiled, but it wa.. | humor runach | Lynn Kurland | |
| 223a91e | He accepted a cup of ale from his brother-in-law, sat back, then sighed. "Get on with the bludgeoning." "Me?" Miach asked innocently. "Why would I bludgeon?" Runach pursed his lips. "Because you are whoyou are, and you know Soilleir of Cothromaiche very well. I am continually appalled by the simialarites between the two of you." Miach only watched his steadily, a small smile playing around his mouth. "You know what she is, don't you?" "Who?.. | miach runach | Lynn Kurland | |
| 7ae0151 | Where are you from?" She asked without thinking. "I was born in the mountains." Runach said with a shrug. "The place doesn't matter." "Do you have siblings?" "Yes, several. Not all are still living. He smiled faintly. "You are full of questions this afternoon." "The library was a bad influence on me." Runach smiled briefly. "And I believe that was three questions you asked me, which leaves me with three of my own for you to answer." "That w.. | humor runach | Lynn Kurland | |
| 4e9b97b | Not all evil is final, nor is all suffering needless. | Lynn Kurland | ||
| 0dddf52 | He leaned over and gently kissed her cheek. Jessica smacked her lips, snorted a time or two, then dropped back off to sleep. "I love you," Richard whispered. "Sweet Jessie, I do." Only soft snores answered him. Richard smiled. He wished Jessica had been awake to see it, for he was certain it was a smile that would have pleased even her. More than just the corners of his mouth had joined in. He laid his head down next to hers and stared at h.. | Lynn Kurland | ||
| 15bbfcd | Like the first two revolutions, chaos cuts away at the tenets of Newton's physics. As one physicist put it: "Relativity eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability." | James Gleick | ||
| ad963f6 | We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization, which tends to reduce everything to the heat death of equilibrium and sameness.... This heat death in physics has a counterpart in the ethics of Kierkegaard, who pointed out that we live in a chaotic moral universe. In this, our main obligation is to establish arbitrary enclaves of order and system.... Like the Red Queen, we cannot stay where we are without running as fast.. | James Gleick | ||
| 441f172 | When McLuhan announced that the medium was the message, he was being arch. The medium is both opposite to, and entwined with, the message.) | James Gleick | ||
| 09891fe | When Isaac Newton embarked on his great program, he encountered a fundamental lack of definition where it was most needed. He began with a semantic sleight of hand: "I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all," he wrote deceptively. Defining these words was his very purpose. There were no agreed standards for weights and measures. Weight and measure were themselves vague terms. Latin seemed more reliable than.. | James Gleick | ||
| cceb14f | It may be that all the laws of energy, and all the properties of matter, and all the chemistry of all the colloids are as powerless to explain the body as they are impotent to comprehend the soul. For my part, I think not." D'Arcy Thompson" | James Gleick | ||
| 1b0b23f | Winfree came from a family in which no one had gone to college. He got started, he would say, by not having proper education. His father, rising from the bottom of the life insurance business to the level of vice president, moved family almost yearly up and down the East Coast, and Winfree attended than a dozen schools before finishing high school. He developed a feeling that the interesting things in the world had to do with biology and ma.. | James Gleick | ||
| 9ffb63e | IN THE MIND'S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity. | geometry | James Gleick | |
| 7af9a91 | God plays dice with the universe," is Ford's answer to Einstein's famous question. "But they're loaded dice. And the main objective of physics now is to find out by what rules were they loaded and how can we use them for our own ends." | James Gleick | ||
| 5347dd8 | Like Ada Lovelace, Turing was a programmer, looking inward to the step-by-step logic of his own mind. He imagined himself as a computer. He distilled mental procedures into their smallest constituent parts, the atoms of information processing. | James Gleick | ||
| ef6149c | Other people, too, worried about this new gap between the speeds of travel and messaging. An important London banker told Babbage he disapproved: "It will enable our clerks to plunder us, and then be off to Liverpool on their way to America at the rate of twenty miles an hour." Babbage could only express the hope that science might yet find a remedy for the problem it had created." | James Gleick | ||
| 57edd04 | He is omnipresent not only virtually but also substantially.... In him all things are contained and move, but he does not act on them nor they on him.... He is always and everywhere.... He is all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all force of sensing, of understanding, and of acting.5 | James Gleick | ||
| 12237cc | Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can think and is in the present. It can remember and at once is in the past. It can imagine and at once is in the future, in its own choice of all the possible futures. Your mind can travel through time. | James Gleick | ||
| e282201 | God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies which we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne.... | James Gleick | ||
| 0a77c09 | The Difference Engine stands--for a replica works today, in the Science Museum in London--as a milestone of what could be achieved in precision engineering. In the composition of its alloys, the exactness of its dimensions, the interchangeability of its parts, nothing surpassed this segment of an unfinished machine. Still, it was a curio. And it was as far as Babbage could go. | James Gleick | ||
| 34680d7 | Why do we need time travel, when we already travel through space so far and fast? For history. For mystery. For nostalgia. For hope. To examine our potential and explore our memories. To counter regret for the life we lived, the only life, one dimension, beginning to end. | James Gleick | ||
| da6b88f | China's official State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television issued a warning and denunciation of time travel in 2011, concerned that such stories interfere with history--"casually" | James Gleick | ||
| 8765945 | Lorenz saw it differently. Yes, you could change the weather. You could make it do something different from what it would otherwise have done. But if you did, then you would never know what it would otherwise have done. It would be like giving an extra shuffle to an already well-shuffled pack of cards. You know it will change your luck, but you don't know whether for better or worse. | James Gleick | ||
| 0a08ee4 | In Isaac Newton's lifetime, no more than a few thousand people had any idea what he looked like, though he was one of England's most famous men, yet now millions of people have quite a clear idea--based on replicas of copies of rather poorly painted portraits. Even more pervasive and indelible are the smile of Mona Lisa, The Scream of Edvard Munch, and the silhouettes of various fictional extraterrestrials. These are memes, living a life of.. | James Gleick | ||
| 27dd250 | During a sabbatical he learned enough biology to make a small but genuine contribution to geneticists' understanding of mutations in DNA. | James Gleick | ||
| 7e2887a | There is a progression from pictographic, writing the picture; to ideographic, writing the idea; and then logographic, writing the word. Chinese script began this transition between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago: signs that began as pictures came to represent meaningful units of sound. Because the basic unit was the word, thousands of distinct symbols were required. This is efficient in one way, inefficient in another. Chinese unifies an array .. | James Gleick | ||
| e4f13ce | For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them")." | James Gleick | ||
| 3e8c642 | For the rebirth of the soul was perpetual; only rebirth every hour could stay the hand of Satan. | James Baldwin | ||
| 30cdd01 | Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. JAMES BALDWIN | Julia Cameron | ||
| c61fa26 | And her mother still struggled in these white kitchens in town, humming sweet hymns, tiny, mild eyed and bent, her father still labored on the oyster boats; after a lifetime of labor, should they drop dead tomorrow, there would not be a penny for their burial clothes. | James Baldwin | ||
| 134e504 | You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2ac96e2 | It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being (and let us not ask whether or not this is possible; I think we must believe that it is possible) must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 7bc0daf | Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are s.. | equality race-relations racism reality | James Baldwin | |
| 123395d | The price of the liberation of the white people is the liberation of the blacks--the total liberation, in the cities, in the towns, before the law, and in the mind. | James Baldwin | ||
| b6184c5 | And the reason for this ignorance is that a knowledge of the role these people played--and play--in American life would reveal more about America to Americans than Americans wish to know. The | James Baldwin | ||
| ebdb593 | Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. --JAMES BALDWIN | Anna Quindlen | ||
| fcfe979 | The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes--I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether--is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened. | James Baldwin |