Isaac Newton Alchemy Quotes & Sayings

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way. — Akio Morita

One of the Taliban spokesmen said they have thousands of men who look forward to death like Americans look forward to living, which is great because we can arrange that. We'll set them up with death, we'll continue living. — Jay Leno

Painting is the subject of painting. — Joseph Raffael

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt. — Dorothy Allison

Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away by the unconscious choices. — Amit Ray

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is. — Guy Clark

Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other — Patrice O'Neal

See Cook [op.cit.] for a discussion of Huygens's unusual wartime visit to Cambridge and the Royal Society. His philosophical contretemps with Isaac Newton in 1675 (referenced in Society minutes as "The Great Corpuscular Debate") would mark the last significant intellectual discourse between England and the continent prior to the chaos of the Interregnum and the Annexation . . . Some Newton biographers [Winchester (1867), &c] indicate Huygens may have used his sojourn in Cambridge to access Newton's alchemical journals and that key insights derived thusly may have been instrumental to Huygens's monumental breakthrough. However, cf. Hooft [1909] and references therein for a critique of the forensic alchemy underlying this assertion. From Freeman, Thomas S., A History of the Pre-Annexation England from Hastings to the Glorious Revolution, 3 Vols. New Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1918. — Ian Tregillis

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life. — Isaac Newton

The only way you can hurt the body is not use it, — Jack LaLanne

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions. — Henry James

I think one must do the thing
whatever it is (and it changes from time to time)
that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any price, one must do it first. Otherwise one can do nothing, nothing at all. One is out of touch, out of grace. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes! — Ellen Buckingham Mathews

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. — Audre Lorde