#si

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#changed #closely #conditions #even #exist

Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#answered #become #been #coherence #found

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#had #i #inside #me #novel

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#best time #ever #i #i think #now

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life. ↗

— Carre Otis

#adult life #being #born #childhood #diversity

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. ↗

— Carre Otis

#am #controlling #everything #fasting #go

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice. ↗

— Carre Otis

#cover #feel #grow #grow up #honestly

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two. ↗

— Carre Otis

#deny #depicting #i #i think #images

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes. ↗

— James Otis

#conscience #declare #despise #every #foes