Discreteness In Nature Quotes & Sayings

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers. — Nicole Kidman

When the evening was over Alistair Cooke shook my hand goodbye and held it firmly, saying, 'This hand you are shaking once shook the hand of Bertrand Russell.'
'Wow!' I said, duly impressed.
'No, No,' said Cooke, 'It goes further than that. Bertrand Russell knew Robert Browning. Bertrand Russell's aunt danced with Napoleon. That's how close we all are to history. Just a few handshakes away. Never forget that. — Stephen Fry

In thinking back to when we had our big glitch, I remember seeing it get light outside the window. We were in the clouds; I'm pretty sure we got hit by lightning. — Pete Conrad

There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!' — R. Kelly

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association. — Demetri Martin

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them. — John Maeda

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. — Henry Rollins

Wasn't he the one who sliced off his ear and mailed it to his girlfriend?"
"Van Gogh," said Varen, in a monotone that suggested he might be in pain.
"Van Gogh," Gwen said, leaning away, waving the apple. "Edgar Allan Poe. Close enough! — Kelly Creagh

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music. — Edith Piaf

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present. — Neil Postman

Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business. — Soseki Natsume

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. — Elizabeth McCracken

The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then. — Erwin Schrodinger