#ions

The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #gun-violence #love #meg-kavanagh

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters. ↗

— Serge Lang

#biology #certain #competence #does #evaluate

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress. ↗

— Serge Lang

#also #community #congress #including #internally

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#far #important #important things #life #losing

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. ↗

— Susanne Langer

#knowledge #must #new #new knowledge #new questions

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#benefit #direct #history #human #human needs

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood. ↗

— Erik Larson

#appropriate #back #help #i #i do

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second. ↗

— Danny Masterson

#ball player #being #could #dollars #i

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate. ↗

— Loretta Ellsworth

#death #life #loss #relationships #transplant

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

#arrangement #basic #basic principles #corresponding #decisive