"Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ..."

-- W. W. Rouse Ball

#Attention Quotes #Chemistry Quotes #Newton Quotes

“I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."”
“Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.”
“If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 Ã—10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.”
“The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies”
“All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.”

Source : Henry Abbey, “Eleusinia”
“Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?”
“The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.”

Source : Nancy Thayer (2010). “Beachcombers: A Novel”, p.3, Ballantine Books
“I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in more of a modernized version - and Explorer Series stuff, which is completely undiluted indigenous folk music. That's a lot more powerful than a lot of the super-processed stuff that comes out now.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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