"In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more than we can prove, or we have to use vague and general terms which hide the essential point, instead of bringing it out. The history of electrical theories furnishes a good example."

-- Arthur Schuster

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“He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.”
“Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs.”
“The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.”
“I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.”
“People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.”
“Iâ€™m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I donâ€™t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.”
“I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.”
“Get smart and nothing can touch you.”

Source : S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.136, Penguin

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