"But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography."

-- Michael Polanyi

#Topography Quotes #Physics Quotes

“Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.”

Source : Phillis Wheatley (2008). “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com
“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
“I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.”

Source : AbsolutePunk.net Intreview, October 6, 2008.
“Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?”
“We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.”
“...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.”

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