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In his great treatise, Electricity and Magnetism, Clerk Maxwell had remarked that we are often told that in science we must, first of all, investigate the properties of very small local places one after another, and only when this has been done can we permit ourselves to consider how more complicated situations result from what we have found in those elements. This procedure, he added, ignores the fact that many phenomena in nature can only be understood when we inspect not so-called elements but fairly large regions. — Wolfgang Kohler

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life. — Andrei Tarkovsky

But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted and growing bored with it. Now I had too much time to think about whether I was going to die from the tide — Tracy Chevalier

Sometimes I text the "wrong" person ... on purpose. Just to start a conversation. — Frank Warren

Originality is no excuse for ignorance. — Fred Brooks

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? — William Gibson

I had a cat I could not see,
Because it stayed in back of me.
It was a very loyal pet-
It's sad we never really met.
I had a nice pet
Who I never met,
Remember it always stayed behind me.
And I'm sure it was a cat, too. — Peggy Rathmann

Collecting expresses a free-floating desire that attaches and re-attaches itself - it is a succession of desires. The true collector is in the grip not of what is collected but of collecting. — Susan Sontag

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits. — Gerhard Richter

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) — Gaius Julius Caesar

Steve, you want to be thanking all that's fucking holy I've got my girl in my arms, because if I didn't, the cleaners would be scooping up your remains for a fucking year. — Jodi Ellen Malpas