"It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet."

-- Christiaan Huygens

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“Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.”
“I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.”

Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.
“God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.”

Source : John Bertram Phillips, Denis Duncan (1978). “365 meditations by J.B. Phillips for this day”
“In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.”

Source : "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.
“You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you canâ€™t get me out of the story. Iâ€™m the plot, babe, and donâ€™t ever forget it.”
“I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.”
“By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.”
“All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product”

Source : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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