#island

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#country #dream #house #island

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#desert island #go #island #live #otherwise

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#depends #direction #enough #general #general knowledge

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#contain #death #eighty #every #grief

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands. ↗

— George Duke

#islands #performing #several #shows

Death was so close, I could smell his hairy armpits. ↗

— Guybrush Threepwood

#xd #death

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. ↗

— William Floyd

#despotism #destruction #families #fate #fear

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this. ↗

— Danny Glover

#because #caribbean #change #climate #climate change