Kit Williams

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control. ↗

— Kit Williams

#else #hoop #jump #remind #someone

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. ↗

— Kit Williams

#course #differential #his #inventor #newton

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center. ↗

— Kit Williams

#built #career #center #clock #clocks

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming. ↗

— Kit Williams

#consuming #each #every #i #individual

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. ↗

— Kit Williams

#been #before #chariot #different #different people

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. ↗

— Kit Williams

#fairy #fairy tale #got #had #how

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. ↗

— Kit Williams

#advertising #human #instinct #listen #makes

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit. ↗

— Kit Williams

#circle #closely #dog #impossible #interconnected

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west. ↗

— Kit Williams

#been #chariot #could #direction #east