"It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo."

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Source : "In Continuation of Pope on Newton" l. 1 (1926) See Pope 11

J. C. Squire

#Devil Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.”
“By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms,”
“The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.”
“I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.”
“Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO!”
“In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.”
“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.”

Source : Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications
“Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?”

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