“It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all the other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.” TryingBelieveHeartImportantMatterFeelingsI BelieveSexSleepTeachSonBirthPeriodsClothesMy SonMechanicFertileBirth Control Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.” YearsChildrenBeautifulBornBeautyMarriageFieldsTheoryBirthYears AgoFiftyQuantumMechanicRelativityQuantum MechanicsRobust Author:Steven Weinberg
“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.” WealthLordBirthEnglandGentlemanPeersMechanicAntiquityRakesImpudence Book:The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe Source: The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe
“There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.” PeopleLooksLyingBirthFruitSmellGreekBrutalMechanicMonstrousRipeHideousUpheavalRipe FruitMutabilityDefilement Author:Donna Tartt