#verse

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adverse #background #backgrounds #children #educational

The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#life #science #universe #beauty

Near the sun is the center of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#near #sun #universe

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#book #contain #course #describe #earth

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#basic #effects #energy #felt #just

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#dwell #epitome #get #golf #golf course

My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe. ↗

— Celine Dion

#child #me #only #universe

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#diverse #home #home state #illinois #our

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#constitution #exclusively #force #gives #only

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas. ↗

— John Fogerty

#assembled #name #old #overseas