#missing

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#longing #mathematics #missing #negative-numbers #mathematics

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#conclusion-before-evidence #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#believe #fairy #fairy tales #half #how

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one. ↗

— Alton Brown

#burgundy #feeling #go #i #intimidated

My wife, she likes to have things uncluttered, and if something is missing, then one has to be very careful not to ask her if it was thrown out - you have to ask her simply where it might be. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#careful #her #likes #might #missing

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#example #for example #good #here #missing

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#behind #every #failure #had #missed

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#condemn #divorce #gay #gay marriage #indifferent

One missing child is one too many. ↗

— John Walsh

#many #missing #too

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions. ↗

— James Welch

#college #community #community college #doing #each