#vent

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#human #human language #language #matter #prevents

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#before #beings #chance #discovering #ever

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#born #distribute #does #energy #equally

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#alternative #argument #because #could #examine

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#been #before #details #go #going

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship. ↗

— Eddy Arnold

#decade #every #get #great #great relationship

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bank #because #below #calm #central

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#another #barrier #break #breaking #ends

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#conventional #go #go home #home #more