"The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me."

-- Brian Greene

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“(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.”
“A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.”

Source : Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.238, Black House Publishing Ltd
“The literary scene is filled with young people now, which is a great joy. They seem fully capable of saving the world, as we failed to do when young, though heaven knows we tried.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 10, 2014
“At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.”
“Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?”

Source : Christopher Fry (2007). “Plays Three”, Oberon Books Limited
“Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.”
“Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.”

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