Silbey Physical Chemistry Quotes & Sayings

We are not smart enough to leave things to the market. — Ha-Joon Chang

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. — Joseph Campbell

Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty? — George Santayana

Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves. — Stephen Covey

For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance. — Herman Melville

Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal "disturbed" child, not an alien. — Doris Lessing

I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness. — Wesley Strick