"He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'....."

-- Leon M. Lederman

#Two Quotes #Space Quotes #Atoms Quotes

“We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics”
“... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.”

Source : Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.36, Open Road Media
“The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher
“No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.”
“And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.”
“It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible... As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general.”
“...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first.”
“I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.”

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