#sting

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#best #best part #busy #busy working #fellows

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and re-experience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart. ↗

— Buckminster Fuller

#discerning #discovery #empiricism #experience #experiment

A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length consisting of 100 links. ↗

— Edmund Gunter

#consisting #iron #length #links #made

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it. ↗

— David Guterson

#book #doing #emerge #even #i

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#exotic #foreign #i #i think #interesting

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. ↗

— Jacob Hacker

#accounts #comfortable #even #feel #homes

We thought it would be nice to have atoms interact in such a gentle way with the photons that they would just take an imprint of the photons, so that many atoms could 'see' the same photon and it would give rise to a lot of interesting effects. Myself and my colleagues had this project for a very long time and we were finally able to observe it. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#atoms #be nice #colleagues #could #effects

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#existing #freedom #heart #limited #matter

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#amiable #attracts #beauties #charm #every

The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#adapting #between #both #change #even