Aberration famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.
-- Albert A. Michelson -
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.
-- Auguste Comte -
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
-- Emile M. Cioran -
Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
-- H. L. Mencken -
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
-- Henry James -
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.
-- John Astin -
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
-- Lester R. Brown -
Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
-- Mary Roach -
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
-- Pat Conroy -
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
-- Remy de Gourmont -
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
-- Rene Dubos -
Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.
-- Sheri L. Dew -
This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this aberration in my life. The rest of my conduct, I think you will agree, is not reflective of my driving record, and I apologized for it.
-- Zulima Farber -
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.
-- Albion Woodbury Small -
I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
-- Kevin Sessums -
Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?
-- Larisa Alexandrovna
