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Quote by Hugh Walpole

“[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.”

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Hugh Walpole was an English novelist known for his Gothic novels and literary criticism. His works are characterized by strong emotions and complex plots, which have been well-received by readers. more

“That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.”

Ifs Has Beens Views Impossible Subjects Example Negative Direct Roots Ill Point Of View Mysterious Squares Imaginary Units Obscurity Magnitude Adapted Inverse Square Roots

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.”

World Wells Reason Women Degrees Accomplish Abstract Sophie Honorary

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.”

Scientist Steady Attainment Acquisition

Book:The Philosophy of Physics

Source: The Philosophy of Physics

“Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.”

Winning Mass Zero Contests Minimalist Radius Neutrinos

Book:The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

“Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.”

Home Late

Book:The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

“My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.”

Mind Children Used Projects My Children Prize Committees Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:Leon M. Lederman

“You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.”

People Firsts Eye Age Opinion Grew

Book:Staring at the sun

Source: Staring at the sun

“My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.”

Littles I Can Prayer Lord Strength Bears

Book:Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

“Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.”

Years Lasts Grows Spring Winter Abundance Pigs Barrels Peaches Clovers Herring

Book:Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

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