"No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy]."

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Edward Victor Appleton

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“At the end of the day nobody's perfect and everybody's weird whether they embrace it or not”
“I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.”
“Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.”
“People need a parental divine love which will attend to them above all else, no matter what happens”
“When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.”
“Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.”
“Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.”
“In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts.”

Source : Matilde Serao (1901). “The Land of Cockayne: A Novel”

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