"Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur."

-- Georgius Agricola

#Doctrine Quotes #Flux Quotes #Bloody Quotes

“If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.”
“Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.”
“My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.”
“The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.”
“Even the clearest localization of pain in one area may, in fact, be originating from a distant area .... The reference of pain implies the existence of convergence of inputs within the spinal cord. This leads to the necessary involvement in central neural circuits in the simplest of peripheral disorders. It also leads to the possibility that the basic disorder is entirely central ...”
“There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.193, Penguin Books India
“The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.70, Harvard University Press
“In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season.”

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