#scattering

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting. ↗

— James Rainwater

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Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise. ↗

— John Durham Peters

#dialogue #scattering #communication

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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