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“The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.”

Ifs Mind Humans Ideas Sometimes Problem Reality Seems Human Beings Brain Conditions Huge Solutions Surface Human Mind

Author:Nancy Kline

“We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.”

Circumstances Experience Thirds Surface Strikes Rays Atoms Detached Electrical Electrons

Author:Johannes Stark

“There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.”

Science Sea Fellows Surface Borders Officers Roof Jungle Describing Wildlife Naval Opaque Goggles Mediterranean Sea

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?”

Age Earth Work Surface Grind Glaciers Ploughing

Book:Geological Sketches

Source: Geological Sketches

“So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life.”

Has Beens Seems Science Process Nature Safe Bases Assuming Surface Reactions Chemicals Protein Chemical Reactions Enzymes

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.”

“The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.”

Knows Men Form Black White Color Fit Skins Blind Surface Black And White Sculptors Blind Man Draftsman

Author:John French Sloan

“After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.”

Space Focus Heard Design Evidence Surface Materialism Convincing Descent Convincing Evidence

Author:Arthur Erickson

“You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.”

Children Play Problem Young Artist Creativity Seeing Paint Solve Surface Enormous Young Children Children Playing Free Play

Author:Erik Erikson

“Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!”

Spirit Gone Sea Terrible Surface Ships Sail Sailing Port Nautical Glare Sailing And The Sea Sailing Ships Ships At Sea Sailboat

Book:By Way of the Wind

Source: By Way of the Wind

“One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.”

Source: Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future

“Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?”

Said Soul Greater Taste Eternity Hunger Surface Clarity Demon

Book:The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two

Source: The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two

“An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface.”

Heart Soul Stories Lines Greater Casts Surface Enlightened Hook Entertainers

Author:Derek Rydall

“We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.”

Knows Sea Moon Ocean Surface Exploration Ocean Exploration

Author:James Garner

“The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.”

Believe Earth Faces Numbers Moon Mountain Philosopher Surface Chains Rough Valleys Uniforms Smooth Relieved Prominence

Book:Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works

Source: Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works

“Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.”

“The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to have maintained an ordered rhythm.”

Feels Seems Earth Nature Sea Planets Mountain Travel Ocean Surface Rhythm Desert Breathing Contracts Tides Entity Sage Pulse Planet Earth Deep Sea

Book:Mountain Dialogues

Source: Mountain Dialogues

“The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.”

Eye Faces Nature Air Objects Travel Surface Transmit

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.”

Body Nature Vision Travel Surface Visuals Rays Possessed Transparent

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed of the ocean than will exist at any other time on the surface of the continents.”

Men Age Together Courses Numbers Greater Industry Bed Skills Ocean Surface Exploration Continents Monument Ocean Exploration

Book:Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation

Source: Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation

“When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.”

Littles History Rocks Surface Rough Barren

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

“He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.”

Source: The Daughter of Time

“And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.”

Walks Easier Bird Rivers Legs Surface Pollution Ankh

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.”

Century Changed Surface Technique 20th Century

Author:Howard Hodgkin

“The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.”

One Thing Intelligent Surface

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.”

Self Play Light Water Dancing Surface Ephemeral

Author:Mooji

“Design cannot be heard or read, it must be seen. Design is the structural link between the customers and the product. Content must be brought to the surface. And when a design is completed, it should seem natural and obvious. It should look like it is always been this way. And it should last.”

Way Should Looks Seems Lasts Natural Heard Design Products Obvious Customers Surface Links Graphic Graphic Design

Author:Roger Black

“You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and pain will surface again and again until you come to understand that you, yourself, are creating them. Eventually, you will choose to create harmony and love. You will choose to draw to you the highest-frequency currents that each situation has to offer. Eventually, you will come to understanding that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”

Source: The Seat of the Soul

“The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.”

America Past Black Europe Surface Newspapers African American Native Exploration Scratches Examination Ancestry Native America

Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.”

Real Can Do Expression Surface Gestures Costumes Manipulate Stripping Stripping Away

Author:Richard Avedon

“Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?”

Should Littles Moments Evil Half Mankind Creatures Surface Miserable Thrown Mud Flocks One Half

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.”

Ideas Form Values Taken Creating Intuition Surface Substance Visible Yield Transcending Conjecture

Book:Max Bill

Source: Max Bill

“Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.”

Men Wells Heart Light Fall Water Divine Holy Pure Mirrors Surface Sunlight Pious Holy Man

Author:Ramakrishna

“All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.”

Firsts Beautiful Political Illusion Mirrors Blue Clouds Surface Smoke Thick Rolling Veils Catching Back And Forth Polished Political Power Wisps Smoke And Mirrors Rolling Over

Author:Jimmy Breslin

“A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.”

Men Faces Grows Events Mouths Surface Dribble Saliva Epileptics

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.”

Kind Use Able Moving Greater Sticks Paint Surface Ease Canvas Brushes Liquid

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.”

World Giving Pain Suffering Difficult Sound Levels This World Surface Bites Superficial Pain And Suffering Sound Bites Flippant

Author:Lee Strobel

“Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.”

Giving Art Stories Song Pleasure Beauty Mystery Solutions Surprise Surface Innocence Revelations Aesthetic Puzzles Concealed Catharsis

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works.”

“The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.”

Doe I Can Science Sides Fine Moon Surface Kicks Boots Inches Layers Sole Toes Particles Fractions Footprint Sandy Charcoal

Author:Neil Armstrong

“If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.”

“The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.”

Past Lying Remains Surface Remembered Beneath The Surface

Book:Without a Map: A Memoir

Source: Without a Map: A Memoir

“There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They’re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.”

Facts Certain Fiction Painting Surface Invention Translate Documents Translations Fact And Fiction

Author:Vija Celmins

“The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message. The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.”

World Song Order Messages Essence Remains Surface Masculine Vocal Rendering Cerebral Placenta

Author:John Berger

“Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.”

Harmony Surface Distinction Creeds Rainbow Sects

Author:Jenkin Lloyd Jones

“The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. ') That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.”

Humans Seems Universe Natural Differences Human Beings Space Consciousness Compassion Depends Creatures Species Surface Display Phases Comprehensive Human Species

Author:Brian Swimme

“The concussion crisis has changed the face of sports as we know it and it has brought to surface the incredible importance of our brain health. The time is now for us to make our brain the number one priority so that education and awareness can take effect, and begin to change the way we approach the health of our athletes from youth to professionals.”

Knows Way Faces Sports Numbers Brain Effects Awareness Changed Youth Approach Importance Crisis Incredibles Athlete Surface Priorities Concussions

Author:Ben Utecht

“Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central problem in contemporary photography is to bring about a wider significance in purely textural imagery.”

“Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing, bacteria left behind resettle on your teeth and gums. Oil pulling reaches virtually 100 percent of the mouth, thereby affecting all bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa in the mouth.”

Whole Left Behinds Mouths Percent Surface Oil Teeth Pulling Left Behind Viruses Gum Bacteria Brushing Fungi

Book:Oil Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body Through Oral Cleansing

Source: Oil Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body Through Oral Cleansing

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