"The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter."

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Source : Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.125, Pickle Partners Publishing

James Jeans

#Reality Quotes #Mind Quotes #Looks Quotes

“The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.”

Source : John Lescroart (2009). “A Plague of Secrets”, p.90, Penguin
“Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.”

Source : "5 Questions with Isaiah Mustafa, Apologizes for 'Good Hair' Comments". Interview with Abiola Abrams, www.essence.com. October 3, 2011.
“I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.”
“At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have met the enemy and have asked them over later for drinks and dancing.”

Source : "Fictional character: Robert Leckie". "The Pacific", 2010.
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”

Source : "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..
“After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.”
“The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.”

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