“People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.” PeopleCountryLightSocialConditionsDevelopmentCharacteristicsSocial Systems Author:Li Peng
“For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.” LightFormCertainConditionsWaveFamiliarCharacteristicsLengthChemicalsAtomsElectricQuantumFrequencyOscillationElectromagnetic WavesLight Waves Author:Johannes Stark
“the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.” MenHumansIndividualSexTermConditionsMen And WomenGenderImpulseCharacteristicsAppropriateAndrogyny Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny
“... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.” EvilAbilityBusinessConditionsProduceIgnoranceRootsExtremesVanityHeartacheCharacteristicsEgoismShipwreckOverconfidence Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.” StatesFactsProblemEarthConditionsStrangeOppositesCurrentsConclusionCharacteristicsIncompleteViewpointsPrehistoric Author:Alfred Wegener