“[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction.” IfsBookEnoughUseTogetherCausesCuttingSubjectsEvolutionNormalPagesCarefulDamagePortionsThickAgnosticSectionsSpineCorrections Author:George R. R. Martin
“It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page.” StuffSubjectsParticularPagesResearchSpinning Author:Terry Pratchett
“I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.” FirstsChildrenBookSchoolSubjectsMetsPagesRaysCrystals Book:The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
“One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.” IfsWayArtRealProblemWould BeEyeFormLinesSubjectsMusicianPagesMathematicsDelightMathSubstanceObscureSheetsCalculationsSymbolismTerminologyFormalityLengthyTadpolesSheet Music Author:Ian Stewart
“If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way in which thoughts are expressed and ideas, conveyed, the sometimes dogmatic application of what are, at best, useful maxims such as, 'less is more', the narrative techniques utilised, even the same, irritating, stylistic devices scattered like pepper all over the pages.” IfsWayMayIdeasSometimesMatterTodayNovelSubjectsPagesTechniqueContemporaryNarrativeDevicesApplicationMaximsSubject MatterIrritatingSamenessDogmaticPeppersLess Is More Author:Suhayl Saadi
“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.” FormDesireReadingOpportunitySocialSubjectsSeriousReaderActivityMembersPagesEmbraceIntenseIntimateHalfwayIndicationSexuallyFamily MembersEntwined Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward