#article

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. ↗

— Mary Docter

#been #haven #i #know #lot

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#divine #enthusiasm #false #generous #great

‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy. ↗

— Richard Morris

#matter-and-anti-matter #particle-physics #philosophy #physics #quantum-physics

CURIOSITY DEMANDS THAT WE ASK QUESTIONS, THAT WE TRY TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS MULTITUDE OF ASPECTS AS PERHAPS RESULTING FROM THE ACTION OF A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF ELEMENTAL THINGS AND FORCES ACTING IN AN INFINITE VARIETY OF COMBINATIONS ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#particles #physics #science #science

Don't do that again! Not ever again!" I told him. "I should say the same to you," he said. I could feel his breath, warm on my neck. "Promise me!" I demanded. "I... I promise." "I can't lose you. ↗

— Kristen Simmons

#romantic

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone. ↗

— Lara Santoro

#genetics #love #particle #science #love

And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#lolita #love #lovers #nymph #love

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head. ↗

— James Rollins

#articles #discover #geographic #head #i

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. ↗

— George Santayana

#change #conception #consumption #currency #daily

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#article #be happy #curse #does #dwell