"I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls."

-- A. L. Rowse

#Beauty Quotes #Summer Quotes #Morning Quotes

“If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation-well these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”

Source : "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Ch. 4), 1928.
“When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.”

Source : William Pett Ridge (1912). “Love at Paddington”
“I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.”
“Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I will see them in the light.”
“So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.”
“That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.”
“Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.”
“There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.”

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