"Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we had - were so strange unto them, and so farre exceeded their capacities to comprehend the reason and meanes how they should be made and done, that they thought they were rather the workes of gods then men."

-- Thomas Harriot

#Spring Quotes #Men Quotes #Sea Quotes

“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.”
“I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you.”
“As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.”

Source : "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.
“Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.”
“The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.”
“I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?”
“Running is like a form of meditation for me and a great way to clear my head.”
“Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.”

Source : "What Will Become of Us If Michael Cera Is the Next Elvis?" by Michael Howard, www.esquire.com. August 13, 2014.

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