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“Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.”
Source : "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
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“I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.”
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“Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oÆ’ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”
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“I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.”
Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
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“The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and of temperature that I have identified occur locally in coastal Greenland; regionally in the Arctic Pacific and north Atlantic; and hemispherically for the whole circum-Arctic, suggesting that changes in solar activity drive Arctic and perhaps even global climate.”
Source : "It's the Sun, stupid!: New direct evidence demonstrate that changes in solar activity influence climate". Essay by Willie Soon, March 9, 2009.
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“Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.”
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“Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.”
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“I always act better when I'm able to curse.”
Source : Source: www.movieweb.com