#subtle

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#more #objective #quantum #sense #simply

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#bass #dead #depends #differently #going

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it! ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#call #critical #discrimination #diversity #feels

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#character #copy #face #how #i

The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right. I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, "Fuck subtle. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #humor #subtlety #tolkien #anger

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#empowerment #life #relationships #subtlety #life

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#disappointment #ohio #rain #seasons #subtle

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#establish #fruitful #give #great #inquiry

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#many #nature #ny times #over #senses

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. ↗

— James Baldwin

#longer #morality #power #relationship #subtle