#verses

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#black holes #capable #cosmology #evolutionary #formulates

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way. ↗

— Susan Rice

#depicting #evil #mohammed #prophet #responses

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#encounter #had #now #photograph #purpose

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#although #beautiful #beauty #contain #give

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#always #different #difficult #growing #growing up

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#bit #could #discovered #get #heard

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#defeats #disasters #energies #even #expect

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#british people #hungarian #i #i do #people

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#being #desire #duplication #earth #even

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#condemned #hope #most #pardon #solitude