"The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading."

-- Alfred Nobel

#Father Quotes #War Quotes #Hammers Quotes

“I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.”
“You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.”
“In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.”
“Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.”
“Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson”
“Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police.”
“How you eat tells your genes what type of body you want to have later.”
“I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.”

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