"A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales."

-- Rudolf Arnheim

#Two Quotes #Weight Quotes #Arms Quotes

“The rabbits though and thought. "If we're normal and Leo is normal, then normal is whatever you are!”
“I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.”
“I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.”
“Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.”

Source : "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 3, p. 181, 1953.
“I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.”
“I don’t need to ring anyone. I said I’m dying. I didn’t say I wanted to live.”
“Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.”
“The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.”

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