Makutus Island Quotes & Sayings

She was quite enrapt, we were certain, even as her face remained almost totally blank, just as a drinking glass remains unchanged when filled with water but of course it is not at all the same. — Chang-rae Lee

Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates. — Steven Magee

If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied. — Michael Faraday

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore. — Robert Rauschenberg

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide. — Eric Metaxas