Fereydoon Razmavar Quotes & Sayings

Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's. — Jacob Bronowski

My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being. — Yaacov Agam

Anyone who says the past was perfect is a liar and wasn't there. Everything that thinks can aspire, and everything that aspires wants something better than what they've left behind them. — Seanan McGuire

I thought of all the nights I'd spent in temperature controlled clubs and restaurants, under artificial lights, drinking artificial cocktails with artificial friends. Artificial problems. Artificial drama. How many real, glorious nights had I missed? Nights like this, when the universe dances for you, and you become a tiny but beautiful note of the magical song it sings. — Leylah Attar

There is real danger that, by strengthening our abilities to analyze some questions mathematically, we acquire a general confidence in our beliefs, which extends unjustifiably to those things we're still wrong about. — Jordan Ellenberg

It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living. — Pat Frank

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. — George Eliot

There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no
politics like antipolitics — Christopher Hitchens

Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock. — Sidney Knight