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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 076be59 | la vida es lo que tu hagas de ella. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| 60bd7da | A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| 1ab7dbc | knit and purl These stitches are the fundamentals of knitting and are the basis of every garment. The knit stitch is a series of flat, vertical loops that produces a knitted fabric face and the purl stitch is its reverse. One side is smooth, the other bumpy. Knit is what you show the world; purl is the soft, nubbly underside you keep close to the skin. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| 00f1a4b | you are the kind of person that sears into the soul. I have never been able to get you out of my mind. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| 9c1f92e | Knitting had done more than provide her with a living; it had soothed her soul through more struggles than she could count. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| 0a995ba | Fred's vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point. | data-point death methane viscera war | James S.A. Corey | |
| f9c008e | We're humans, so we're messy | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0655f89 | Disculpe, pero ?podria decirme por que yo no tengo companero, mientras que todos los demas lo tienen? --le grito. --?Por que? !Porque este es un atomo impar y tu eres el electron de valenciaaa...! | George Gamow | ||
| e510f9a | I USED to cross the United States in my automobile every summer, trying to make it to the Pacific Ocean. But, for various reasons, I would always get stuck somewhere--usually in Las Vegas. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| feeb97a | The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard P. Feynman | Alex Reinhart | ||
| 8b4829d | There are very remarkable mysteries about the fact that we're able to do so many more things than apparently animals can do, and other questions like that, but those are mysteries I want to investigate without knowing the answer to them, and so altogether I can't believe theses special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too connected, too local, too provincial. | Richard Feynman | ||
| 757946c | Wir mussen unbedingt Raum fur Zweifel lassen, sonst gibt es keinen Fortschritt, kein Dazulernen. Man kann nichts Neues herausfinden, wenn man nicht vorher eine Frage stellt. Und um zu fragen, bedarf es des Zweifelns. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 56ef033 | Now we have found that this is of paramount importance in order to progress. We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People | Richard Feynman | ||
| 2e06ffd | Working quickly was the trick of it. When Samuel Pepys underwent a lithotomy--the removal of a kidney stone--in 1658, the surgeon took just fifty seconds to get in and find and extract a stone about the size of a tennis ball. (That is, a seventeenth-century tennis ball, which was rather smaller than a modern one, but still a sphere of considerable dimension.) | Bill Bryson | ||
| 43aade6 | tend to think in terms of words and not letters, so it is molecules they count, and these are numerous to say the least. At sea level, at a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius, one cubic centimetre of air (that is, a space about the size of a sugar cube) will contain 45 billion billion molecules. And they are in every single cubic centimetre you see around you. Think how many cubic centimetres there are in the world outside your window--how ma.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 44a4882 | His colleague Richard Feynman wanted to call these new basic particles partons16, as in Dolly, but was over-ruled. Instead they became known as quarks. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 5983eaa | Thank you," I said and then abruptly leaned across the counter and with two forked fingers poked him sharply in the eyes. Actually, I didn't do that. I just imagined it. But imagining it made me feel better. I" | Bill Bryson | ||
| bc02cdd | Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff. | Bill Bryson | ||
| c4e3e90 | here is a new rule: If you are too stupid to spell "disappointed" even approximately correctly, you are not allowed to take part in public discourse at any level. Trawling" | Bill Bryson | ||
| ff66b3d | Anning would spend the next thirty-five years gathering fossils, which she sold to visitors. (She is commonly held to be the source for the famous tongue twister "She sells seashells on the seashore.")" | Bill Bryson | ||
| 589a372 | The confusion over the aluminum/aluminium spelling arose because of some uncharacteristic indecisiveness on Davy's part. When he first isolated the element in 1808, he called it alumium. For some reason he thought better of that and changed it to aluminum four years later. Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the -ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and st.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 605dd40 | I would submit that if you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 6dbe8b8 | Of every 200 atoms in your body, 126 are hydrogen, 51 are oxygen, and just 19 are carbon32.fn3 | Bill Bryson | ||
| 00a177c | Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn't easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realize. To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you. It's an arrangement so specialized and particular that it has never been tried before and will only exist this once. For the n.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| ec7f9ec | The next time you spray on Chanel No. 5 (assuming you do), you may wish to reflect that you are dousing yourself in distillate of unseen sea monster. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 30c3043 | Walpole invented a term, gloomth, to convey the ambience of Gothick; Wyatt's houses were the very quintessence of gloomth. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 8fc8a4d | There's something satisfying, I think," Evans said, "about the idea of light travelling for millions of years through space and just at the right moment as it reaches Earth someone looks at the right bit of sky and sees it." | Bill Bryson | ||
| adff277 | I am not a religious soul, but I must say it does seem a little uncanny that on that morning of all mornings I should have looked over the bridge at such a propitious moment. I mentioned the story at lunch to one of the members of the cathedral, and he nodded sagely and pointed a finger heavenward, as if to say, 'It was God, of course.' I nodded and didn't say anything, but thought: 'Then why did He push him in?' Beyond | Bill Bryson | ||
| 1eb22e4 | Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can't go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox. | chicago-cubs world-series | Bill Bryson | |
| 2ae2b62 | The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: 'I don't intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God.' 'Don't you think God knows the facts?' Bethe asked. 'Yes,' said Szilard. 'He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the facts.' Hans Christian von Baeyer, Taming the Atom | Bill Bryson | ||
| 17512e1 | Though you tell yourself it's preposterous, you can't quite shake the feeling that you are being watched. You order yourself to be serene (it's just a woods for goodness sake), but really you are jumpier than Don Knotts with pistol drawn. | Bill Bryson | ||
| dc9c161 | For a long time it was assumed that anything so miraculously energetic as radioactivity must be beneficial. For years, manufacturers of toothpaste and laxatives put radioactive thorium in their products, and at least until the late 1920s the Glen Springs Hotel in the Finger Lakes region of New York (and doubtless others as well) featured with pride the therapeutic effects of its "Radioactive mineral springs." Radioactivity wasn't banned in .. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 8aecf33 | And yet in Britain, despite the constant buffetings of history, English survived. It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants, should one day become the most important and successful language in the world. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 3a4affc | If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 462a04e | Das Fazit aus alledem lautet: Wir leben in einem Universum, dessen Alter wir nicht berechnen konnen, umgeben von Sternen, deren Entfernung wir nicht kennen, zwischen Materie, die wir nicht identifizieren konnen, und alles funktioniert nach physikalischen Gesetzen, deren Eigenschaften wir eigentlich nicht verstehen. | seite-223 universum wissenschaft | Bill Bryson | |
| 04805e7 | Not every visitor was enchanted. William Morris, the future designer and aesthete, then aged seventeen, was so appalled by what he saw as the exhibition's lack of taste and veneration of excess that he staggered from the building and was sick in the bushes. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 04e5789 | if you wish to end up as a moderately advanced, thinking society, you need to be at the right end of a very long chain of outcomes involving reasonable periods of stability interspersed with just the right amount of stress and challenge (ice ages appear to be especially helpful in this regard) and marked by a total absence of real cataclysm. As | Bill Bryson | ||
| f21c437 | They can tell us not only what Shakespeare wrote but what he read. Geoffrey Bullough devoted a lifetime, nearly, to tracking down all possible sources for virtually everything mentioned in Shakespeare, producing eight volumes of devoted exposition revealing not only what Shakespeare knew but precisely how he knew it. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 834adbb | The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances from us and each other we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don't truly understand. | Bill Bryson | ||
| bcb0e20 | In its first three minutes, according to inflation theory, the universe ran away with itself, doubling in size every one million million million million millionths of a second. Ninety-eight per cent of all that exists was created in those first 180 seconds. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 1b912c4 | For the universe to exist as it does requires that hydrogen be converted to helium in a precise but comparatively stately manner. Tweak the numbers even slightly and we would not be here. Optical | Bill Bryson | ||
| fd4b60e | I am so well prepared financially that I have money in a range of currencies that no longer exist. I | Bill Bryson | ||
| 0f8e624 | For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history--perhaps most--it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater. Dressing | Bill Bryson | ||
| a0d549f | The process became known as sea-floor spreading. When the crust reached the end of its journey at the boundary with continents, it plunged back into the Earth in a process known as subduction. | Bill Bryson |