“They want you confused, compliant, and consuming. But wealth is built by people who think, plan, and act with conviction.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“Young minds are to be liberated from the apparition of deprivation and criticism which accumulated from schooling.”
Source: Thriving Beyond Schooling: A Guide to What Significance Demands
“It was a careworn face. But most of the lines, if followed back like a trail, would lead to happiness. To the faces a face made when laughing or smiling, or sitting quietly enjoying the day.
Though some of those lines led elsewhere. Into a wilderness, into the wild. Where terrible things had happened. Some of the lines of his face led to events inhuman and abominable. To horrific sights. To unspeakable acts.
Some of them his.
The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.”
Source: A Great Reckoning
“The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“Your Attitude Affects Your Latitude”
“With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link points on the three-dimensional globe. He wrested the world’s whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of “discovering the longitude” became a synonym for attempting the impossible.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king’s ransom (several million dollars in today’s currency) for a “Practicable and Useful” means of determining longitude.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“Why, sir, she is to bear me a son, who shall restore the art of embalming and the old Roman manner of burying their dead; and for the benefit of posterity, he is to discover the longitude, so long sought for in vain.”
Source: A Bold Stroke for a Wife