"Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute."

-- Rumi

#Might Quotes #Growing Quotes #Spots Quotes

“For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.”

Source : "The aim and structure of physical theory". Book by Pierre Duhem, p. 10, 1991.
“Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.”
“The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.”
“The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.74, Cambridge University Press
“I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”
“I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.”
“I hardly ever cry because that's just not the type of person I am. But I only break down in front of Yunho at times.”

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