#underground

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#better #civilized #couched #die #flight

Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#cosmic #deep #experiments #expert #flux

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#certainly #charge #exists #hill #i

We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#changeover #could #ever #excited #feeling

fury said to a mouse that he met in the house let us both go to law; I will prosecute you let there be no denial; come, we must have a trial for really, this morning, I've nothing to do such a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the cur without jury or judge would be wasting our breath I'll be judge, I'll be jury said cunning old fury I'll try the whole cause and condemn you to death ↗

— Lewis Carrol

#death

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#clubs #football #football clubs #funding #gigantic

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#been #hip-hop #ideas #locked #mostly

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#fear #many #see #things #underground

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#absolute freedom #anyone #best #best way #comics

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#comics #course #fan #i #really