"Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular."

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Source : "Life at Low Reynolds Number". American Journal of Physics, January 1977.

Edward Mills Purcell

#Numbers Quotes #Majestic Quotes #Lows Quotes

“Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.”
“Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.”
“The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.”

Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.4
“The Oscar nominations are out, and theyâ€™re so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them,”

Source : "'The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore' Debuts In Slot Vacated By Stephen Colbert". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 20, 2015.
“...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.”
“To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.”
“I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.”
“My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.”

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