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“The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence — and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.”
Source : "Carl Anderson. Some notes about his life and work at Caltech. The first of a series of biographical sketches of Caltech faculty members". Engineering and Science, Volume 15:1, October 1951.
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“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
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“In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.”
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“On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.”
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“This is crazy," I told Patch in an undertone. "I'm crazy." He was on the brink of smiling again. "About you.”
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“I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff.”
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“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”
Source : John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.45, Harper Collins
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“There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.”
