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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c8b6212 | The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics. | science string-theory | Brian Greene | |
| 8474298 | But there is a more catholic understanding of the term apostolic: it means missional. The apostles were those called together to learn (as disciples) so they could be sent out on a mission (which is what both the Greek root for apostle and the Latin root for mission mean). From this vantage point, disciples are apostles-in-training; Christian discipleship (or spiritual formation ) is training for apostleship, training for mission. From this.. | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| ec3c617 | Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time. | Brian Greene | ||
| 6f200c1 | Quantum mechanics challenges this view by revealing, at least in certain circumstances, a capacity to transcend space; long-range quantum connections can bypass spatial separation. Two objects can be far apart in space, but as far as quantum mechanics is concerned, it's as if they're a single entity. | Brian Greene | ||
| 3314781 | In this language, we've found that the cosmic cheese acquires more and more holes because quantum processes knock the inflaton's value downward at a random assortment of locations. At the same time, the cheesy parts stretch ever larger because they're subject to inflationary expansion driven by the high inflaton field value they harbor. Taken together, the two processes yield an ever-expanding block of cosmic cheese riddled with an ever-gro.. | Brian Greene | ||
| df37ebf | Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention." | habit inspirational wonder | Brian Christian | |
| 226bf9f | Science is a way of life. | Brian Greene | ||
| 3a71c45 | Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury's orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton's mathematics predicted. In 1915, Einstein used his new equations to recalculate Mercury's trajectory and was able to explain the discrepancy, a realization he later described to his colleague Adrian Fokker as so thrilling that for some hours it gave him heart palpitations. | Brian Greene | ||
| de334e5 | they are beyond each other's cosmic horizon. | Brian Greene | ||
| fe10186 | If the season could ever have any salvation, if it could ever make sense again, it would have to come tonight under a flood of stars on the flatiron plains, before thousands of fans who had once anointed him the chosen son but now mostly thought of him as just another nigger. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 6c135b3 | She said also that they absolutely hated any assignment in which they had to interpret what they had read. If they had to think about anything, make critical judgments and deliberations, the cause was hopeless. The best they could be expected to do was regurgitate. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| ba7dc7d | He saw the irresistible allure of high school sports, but he also saw an inevitable danger in adults' living vicariously through their young. And he knew of no candle that burned out more quickly than that of the high school athlete. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 0587820 | Because retrieval is a reconstructive process, it can be erroneous. We may reconstruct events the way we would prefer to remember them, rather than the way we experienced them. It is relatively easy to bias people so that they form false memories, "remembering" events in their lives with great clarity, even though they never occurred. This is one reason that eyewitness testimony in courts of law is so problematic: eyewitnesses are notorious.. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 9f2491c | Poor feedback can be worse than no feedback at all, because it is distracting, uninformative, and in many cases irritating and anxiety-provoking. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 8c5bca6 | Why do we need to know about the human mind? Because things are designed to be used by people, and without a deep understanding of people, the designs are apt to be faulty, difficult to use, difficult to understand. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 1647334 | When people fail to follow these bizarre, secret rules, and the machine does the wrong thing, its operators are blamed for not understanding the machine, for not following its rigid specifications. With everyday objects, the result is frustration. With complex devices and commercial and industrial processes, the resulting difficulties can lead to accidents, injuries, and even deaths. It is time to reverse the situation: to cast the blame up.. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 85572b4 | It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 715ad03 | El cuarto de Hatsumono era el mas grande de la okiya; ocupaba mas espacio que toda mi casa de Yoroido. No | Arthur Golden | ||
| c505eb1 | I think we -- well, I -- messed up the story. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| d7c5adc | Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me-by one of you! | ellen-raskin murder mysteries mystery sam-westing samuel-westing the-westing-game will | Ellen Raskin | |
| 8ebf660 | The most difficult area to surrender for many people is their money. | Rick Warren | ||
| 590fc8e | her mind was wonderfully uncluttered with the nagging irritations of everyday life. | John Grisham | ||
| 2f2a344 | Since the day I'd left Yoroido, I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me. | obstacle path struggle | Arthur Golden | |
| 8cec20b | It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all. While thinking this thought, I reached out a finger to feel the moth's velvety surface; but when I brushed it with my fingertip, it turned all at once into a pile of ash without even a sound, without even a moment in which I could see it crumbling. I wa.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| a38495c | I had the sudden insight that nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 07e1870 | Zar zivot nije nista drugo do oluja koja stalno odnosi ono sto je jos samo trenutak ranije bilo tu i ostavlja za sobom tek nesto ogoljelo i neprepoznatljivo? | Arthur Golden | ||
| bbdf794 | I lived in that contented state a long while before I was finally able to look back and admit how desolate my life had once been. I'm sure I could never have told my story otherwise; I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. | Arthur Golden | ||
| f22fa48 | It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery. Outside the wind howled down Baker Street, while the rain beat fiercely against the windows. It was strange there, in the very depths of the town, with ten miles of man's handiwork.. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| e5db13b | If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind. | hurt life words | Arthur Golden | |
| f2e405b | dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely. | Arthur Golden | ||
| c116d1b | Izdrzi. To je jedino sto bilo tko od nas moze uciniti na ovome svijetu. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 7a6796b | Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the same person who wrote the novel, but the effect of the two books is utterly different. The biography is indeed depressing and painful reading. It captures better, I believe, than any any subsequent biography the introverted and puritan pessimist side of Charlotte Bronte, and conveys the real dreariness of .. | Ian Gregor | ||
| bafaa01 | When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire. | feelings fire love | Arthur Golden | |
| e313f42 | The eyes] are the most expressive part of a woman's body. | Arthur Golden | ||
| e1d5d9d | Her first really great role, the one that cemented the "Jean Arthur character," was as the wisecracking big-city reporter who eventually melts for country rube Gary Cooper in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). It was the first of three terrific films for Capra: Jean played the down-to-earth daughter of an annoyingly wacky family in Capra's rendition of Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You (1938), and she was another hard-.. | classic-hollywood film films frank-capra hollywood jean-arthur movies | Eve Golden | |
| 48e9378 | Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 9d22cc4 | The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish. | humor | Arthur Golden | |
| b41532d | Is this how you act toward your honored guest? You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a bit to wake him up. The cold will do him good." "He's lying in the snow. Isn't that cold enough?" | Arthur Golden | ||
| 66f2d5a | Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things. | Arthur Golden | ||
| aa7a066 | I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 1de2c3c | We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I had never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 397e74f | Ninguno de nosotros encuentra en este mundo todo el carino que deberiamos. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 729e4a2 | We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would have been a simple stream flowing from our tipsy house to the ocean. Mr. Tanaka changed all that when he sent me out into the world. But being sent out into the world isn't necessarily the same as leaving your home behind you. I'd been in Gion mor.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 6086dc3 | The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive? | heartache hoplessness pain world | Arthur Golden |