"Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool."

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Source : "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.

Hans Christian von Baeyer

#Lying Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Land Quotes

“The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”

Source : "Jerry Falwell: An Unauthorized Profile". Book by William R. Goodman Jr.; James J. H. Price, 1981.
“I'm keeping in shape, you know, gotta look good for the ladies - and certain guys. Hey, I can't control who's looking. I just gotta bring the heat.”
“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”
“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
“I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.”
“Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.”
“I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.”
“In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes of being that we behold, are they not expressions of my Beloved? For there is none save Him. He is smaller than the smallest, and greater than the greatest.”

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