"Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Latin Quotes #Dark Quotes #Dust Quotes

“Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.”
“The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato.”

Source : Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile
“Actors are very generous.”
“By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.”
“Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a distance one upon another, but this action is so slight at great distances that their trajectories are rectilineal; nevertheless, from time to time, two of them may come near enough together to be deviated from their course, like a comet that passed too close to Jupiter. In a word, in the eyes of a giant, to whom our Suns were what our atoms are to us, the Milky Way would only look like a bubble of gas.”
“If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.”
“I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.”
“A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.”

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