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James Clerk Maxwell

"Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange has incorporated his own analysis of the problem with his general treatment of mechanics, and since his time M. PoinsÃ´t has brought the subject under the power of a more searching analysis than that of the calculus, in which ideas take the place of symbols, and intelligent propositions supersede equations."

-- James Clerk Maxwell

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“So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.”
“I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measured in months, reconstitute chemical and biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization program,”
“The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.”
“Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.”

Source : "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.
“I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.”
“I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Hello, Officer? Can you help me? My dad got turned into a zombie. You know, weâ€™ve been travelling around getting rid of things that arenâ€™t real, and this time they hit back. I really need someplace to stay â€“ but can you make sure I have some holy water or something wherever it is? And some silver-jacketed bullets? Thatâ€™d be sweet. Yeah, thatâ€™d be totally cool. Thanks. And while youâ€™re at it, can you tell the guys with the straitjackets that Iâ€™m really sane? That would help.”
“It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.”

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