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“This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.”

Wells Kind Mean Use Might Science Balance Tools Currents Chemistry

Author:Marie Curie

“Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.”

“Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him. Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.”

“The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science. The whole, theory and experiment, seems as if it had leaped, full grown and full armed, from the brain of the 'Newton of Electricity'. It is perfect in form, and unassailable in accuracy, and it is summed up in a formula from which all the phenomena may be deduced, and which must always remain the cardinal formula of electro-dynamics.”

Mind Wells May States Science Language Sound Known Opinion Materials Paid Currents Doctrine Absurd Phrases Application Well Known Alterations

Book:Maxwell on Molecules and Gases

Source: Maxwell on Molecules and Gases

“You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

Ends Facts Reality Might Faith Challenges Discipline Difficulty Perseverance Currents Brutal Unwavering Good To Great Unwavering Faith

Author:James C. Collins

“In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.”

“The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.”

Way Poverty Crisis Financial Currents New Ways Right Time Financial Crisis

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.”

People Believe Ideas Women Results Creativity Innovation Strive Currents Obsession Eras Immortality

Author:Arianna Huffington

“The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.”

Way Philosophy Today Behinds Meditation Findings Currents

Author:Orlando Bloom

“It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.”

Humans Facts Remember Religion Human Beings Atheism Events Claims Currents Believer Fraud Pious Examining Current Events

Book:Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

Source: Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

“The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.”

Looks Moments Light Past Courses Powerful Meditation Teaching Awareness Habit Currents Command Buddhist Streams That Moment Swim Conditioning Swimmer Battered Changing Course

Author:Stephen Batchelor

“Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.”

Inspirational Inspiration Life Is Position Inspire Currents Complaining Worthless Spine Rich And Poor

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.”

“It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.”

Mother Father Husband Daughter Currents

Author:Ismail Merchant

“The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.”

Ideas Might Wanted Mother Party Class Study Subjects Students Horror Daughter Labor Currents Working Class Mother Daughter Chauffeurs

Author:Michael Gove

“When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.”

Believe I Can Play Kids Film Mother Guy Choices Interesting Roles Seeing Son Daughter My Friends Currents Decades Things To Do My Son Most Interesting Interesting Things Son And Daughter

Author:Geena Davis

“In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.”

Action Courses Struggle Currents Civil Rights Alternatives March

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator.”

Understanding Design Expression Evolution Becoming Conscious Overcoming Universal Currents Creator Propose Dichotomy

Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

“Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation, so that each moment you are at home, at ease, at peace with existence.”

Trying Moments Home Moving Existence Rivers Absolutes Currents Faster Ease Relaxation

Author:Rajneesh

“The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.”

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life in all its biological diversity. But things could also turn out to be worse than the current scientific best guess. In military affairs, policy has long been based on the dictum that we should be prepared for the worst case. Why should it be so different when the security is that of the planet and our long-term future?”

“He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.”

Brain Currents Nerves Strokes Cords Spinal Cord

Author:Charles Scott Sherrington

“Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.”

Way Two Body Action Science Strong Force Secret Fire Sea Movement Wind Rain Rivers Wave Currents Forests Ice Internals Flood Two Ways Earthquakes Geology Forest Fires Strong Winds

Author:Mikhail Lomonosov

“The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.”

“My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.”

Ifs Strong Interest Subjects Currents Enormous Documentaries Compulsion Wildlife Alimony

Author:John Cleese

“The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.”

Situation Groups Military Advantage Crisis Iraq Population Currents Governance Extremist Disillusioned Current Situation Extremist Groups

Author:Tim Kaine

“[The report 'World Energy Outlook 2006'] reveals that the energy future we are facing today, based on projections of current trends, is dirty, insecure and expensive.”

World Today Energy Currents Oil Dirty Expensive Reports Trends Insecure Outlook Projection Peak Oil

Author:Claude Mandil

“Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.”

School Lasts Found Hours Answers Four Wall Court Library Currents Formal Resorts Librarian Public Library Formal Education School Library Four Walls

Author:Arthur Ashe

“His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True that at times his head, because of his youth, looked scraggy, even his body sometimes looked scraggy, but suddenly for some reason like the change of light, or of mood, he looked his potential. This was going to be a champion cat.”

Sometimes Reason Body Light Beautiful Lines Sea Youth Months Shapes Quiet Cat Currents Mood Champion Colour Autumn

Author:Derek Tangye

“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look at the foot how the burials increased or decreased, and among the Casualties what had happened, rare and extraordinary, in the week current; so as they might take the same as a Text to talk upon in the next company, and withal in the Plague-time, how the Sickness increased or decreased, that the Rich might judg of the necessity of their removal, and Trades-men might conjecture what doings they were likely to have in their respective dealings.”

“Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject atoms to any specified influences such as light or heat, magnetic fields or electric currents.”

Light Today Science Asks Influence Subjects Fields Goes On Currents Experiments Observation Heat Atoms Electric Magnetic Likelihood Magnetic Fields

Book:What Little I Remember

Source: What Little I Remember

“One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.”

Kind Courses Stuff Theory Winter Currents Pet Subtle January Evangelists Wintertime Winter Season Winter Months

Author:Shirley Ann Grau

“I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectacular-a deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils!”

Science Results Wall Late Expectations Built Window Currents Experiments Evening Biographies Explosions Spectacular Liquid Hydrogen Great Expectations Pioneering

Author:Nicholas Kurti

“In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical density for which the total energy of the universe was exactly zero at the beginning.”

Matter Facts Religion Universe Energy Atheism Equal Errors Average Currents Critical Observation Zero Measurement Density Energy Of The Universe Matter And Energy

Author:Victor J. Stenger

“I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.”

Knows Littles Has Beens Book Done Age Literature Practice Cry Prove Destruction Importance Notes Currents Educational Propose Good Education Edification

Book:Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education

Source: Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education

“Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.”

Thinking Knows Spiritual Forget Flow Rivers Eternity Currents Abandon Inward Decree

Book:Willow: a novel

Source: Willow: a novel

“One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not been written.”

Facts Earth Causes Natural Chance Written Evolution Bases Currents Contrary Accepted Scenarios Describing Genesis Origin Of Life

Author:Hubert Yockey

“In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical. The etheric, composed of finer, more attenuated substances than the physical, is corresponding amenable to vibratory influences. It is upon the former that harmony and rhythm have the most potent effect. Good music readjusts its molecular structure in accordance with the original divine plan, the archetype, and refines and accentuates it's vibratory currents. All forms of beauty and harmony increase this regenerating process.”

“I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.”

World Able Found Stars Rocks Currents Mail Locked Rock Star Outside World

Author:Kurt Cobain

“Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.”

Knows Literature Appreciate Criticism Gold Weight Critics Currents Critical Scales Bars Rough Diamond Incapable Coins Labs Traders Touchstones Crucible Diamond In The Rough

Author:Joseph Joubert

“There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.”

Today Time History Dangerous Danger Ignorance Historical Affair Currents Current Affairs

Author:Edgar Dale

“Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions.”

Answers Half Practice Missing Ignorance Tests Asking Currents Testing

Author:Robert Sternberg

“I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.”

Giving Feelings Used Morning Blood Mines Give Me Currents Dust Noses Pleasant Electric Every Morning Valentine's Day Old Days Electric Current

Book:The Essential Nelson Mandela

Source: The Essential Nelson Mandela

“I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.”

Trying Wells Wanted Jobs Force Waiting Leadership Football Needed Currents Outcomes Nfl Timing Preparing Inspiring Football

Book:Quiet Strength: A Memoir

Source: Quiet Strength: A Memoir

“The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if the current situation continues, then the world will not be able to handle this burden.”

“The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or the hearts of the chakras. Within these hearts are seals which control exchange of energy between layers of the aura through that chakra. That is, each of the seven chakras has seven layers, each corresponding to a layer of the auric field.”

Heart Energy Fields Roots Seven Currents Layers Seals Auras Corresponding Chakra Seven Chakras

Author:Barbara Brennan

“The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of corn growing in full sunlight in the middle of the day uses up all the carbon dioxide within a meter of the ground in about five minutes. If the air were not constantly stirred by convection currents and winds, the corn would stop growing.”

“Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking about 'saving the planet' is an effective way to show their 'caring' for humanity and that it is the easiest way to maximize votes irrespective of any relevant activity which would aim at the real needs of people. The global warming dogma has become a very easy form of escapism from the current reality.”

“The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.”

Source: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

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