"In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that the aether cannot be molecular. If it were, it would be a gas, and a pint of it would have the same properties as regards heat, etc., as a pint of air, except that it would not be so heavy."

-- James Clerk Maxwell

#Science Quotes #Air Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.”

Source : Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books
“I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.”
“A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.”

Source : "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair" by Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com.
“I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.”

Source : "Ex-Astronaut Recalls Thrill of 1st U.S. Space Flight" by Marcia Dunn, The Deseret News, p. A, May 01, 1991.
“I am excessively diverted.”

Source : Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.403, Diversion Books
“History is like a constantly changing tree.”
“Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.”
“Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.”

Source : Willis Thornton (1992). “History: Facts and Fable”, Dorset Pr

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