#grand

Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway. ↗

— Peter Watts

#geometry #nature #nature-s-grandeur #nature

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#began #century #grandiose #idea #inspiration

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it. ↗

— Shania Twain

#better #bigger #country #country music #daughter

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#being #believe #chaos #children #come

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#ever #federer #game #going #grand

So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#adventure #cast #cops #could #diversity

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#figures #generation #grand #heroes #history

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#call #example #five #for example #good

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#always #enjoyed #father #grandparents #i

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises. ↗

— Fred Upton

#affordable #care #costs #coverage #deliver