December 2011
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“Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”
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“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers...”
– Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (via i-ngenue)
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timeimmemorial:
Wrong living, impotent aspirations; “What I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that do I,” as St. Paul says; self-loathing, self-despair; an unintelligible and intolerable burden to which one is mysteriously the heir.
William James, from The Varieties of Religious Experience
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“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the...”
– Albert Einstein (via elige)
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via wunderlast)
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“You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this...”
– Vaclav Havel source (via • follow)
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“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony;...”
– Simon Van Booy (via anatomyalice)
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Technoccult: In Case You Missed It Last Week: LHC... →
technoccult:
The Chi_b (3P) is a more excited state of Chi particles already seen in previous collision experiments, explained Prof Roger Jones, who works on the Atlas detector at the LHC.
“The new particle is made up of a ‘beauty quark’ and a ‘beauty anti-quark’, which are then bound together,” he told BBC News.
“People have thought this more excited state should exist for years but nobody...
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Physics or Fashion? What Science Lovers Link to... →
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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to...”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (via nirvikalpa)
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“There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely...”
– Martin Gardner, American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics (1914-2010), Mathematical magic show: more puzzles, games, diversions, illusions & other mathematical sleight-of-mind from Scientific American, Vintage Books, 1978, p. 21. (Illustration: Agnes Denes,...
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“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
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“It’s been a long time since I talked about certain things. So I don’t know any...”
– La mort heureuse by Albert Camus (via suzywire)
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“Even if what you’re working on doesn’t go anywhere, it will help you with the...”
– Cormac Mcarthy (via vineetkaur)
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“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some...”
– Carl Sagan (via light-essence)
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“…I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m part of it-tiny, to be sure, but...”
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via fuckyeahtheuniverse)
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“[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is...”
– Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-1988) U. S. physicist. Nobel prize 1944. (via quotablescientists)
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