Enmienda Platt Quotes & Sayings

To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility. — Richard P. Feynman

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

There is a tendency for things to right themselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual. — Frederick Lenz

We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps. — Vince Poscente

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. — Jean De La Fontaine

It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other. — Lois Lowry

The way to expand your joy is by expanding your capacity for discomfort and failure. — Johnny B. Truant

Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be useful. It is good for close-up work. We have invented the magnifying glass and the microscope to narrow our vision, because narrowness makes for precision. But narrowness also makes for a failure of purpose, for exhaustion of the will; for purpose depends upon a broad vision, a clear sight of one's objective. — Colin Wilson

Durrant stopped off at a commissary of sorts to pick up a selection of his favorite snacks. — Elizabeth Kolbert

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon. — Bobby Sands

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave ... I think the world would be better off if we did leave ... — George W. Bush

There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle. — Zoe Kravitz

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty. — Jeff VanderMeer