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“It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his face, reflected on the inside cylindrical surface of the bore while inside an MRI (magnetic-resonance-imaging) machine-a device made possible by his early physical researches on nuclear magnetic resonance (1938).”

Made Faces Science Saws Seeing Research Machines Surface Nuclear Devices Bores Biographies Resonance Magnetic Eerie Imaging Mri

Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi

“Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.”

States Earth Science Revolution Evidence Extraordinary Surface Violent Explanation Catastrophe Recourse Supposition Geologist

Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope

“Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.”

Way Long Walking Moon Surface Als Long Way Star Gazing

Author:Alan Shepard

“As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.”

Firsts Made Steps Walking Moon Surface Made It First Steps Apollo Star Gazing Taurus

Author:Gene Cernan

“Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.”

Trying Form Picks Patient Surface Wounds Heal Analysts Scabs

Author:Janet Malcolm

“Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.”

Book Reality Reading Library Surface Paragraph Hold Fast Footnotes

Author:Nicholson Baker

“Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.”

Five Four Despair Surface Senses Clock Routine Display Negativity Abyss Consumed Frenzy

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.”

Source: At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament

“I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.”

Thinking Want Wells Audience Complexes Surface Hitchcock

Author:David Cronenberg

“Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.”

World Should Country Humanity Saws Objects Surface Other Countries Expansion

Author:Cecil Rhodes

“Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.”

Needs Faces Concerned Mirrors Surface Checks Mask Peril

Book:Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000

Source: Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000

“I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.”

Thinking Soul Sometimes Interesting Mark Surface Portraits

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.”

Ifs Way Running Pain Watches Too Much Nice Television Drink Anxiety Surface Friendly Scratches Facade Overwork Overeating Below The Surface

Author:Joko Beck

“What was once underground is now coming to the surface.”

Surface

Author:Gavin Bryars

“Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.”

Form Three Space Protect Depth Surface Planes Height Abstract Infinity Transfers Width

Book:Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.”

Trying Records Overcoming Surface Noise Ironic Tape Always Trying Old Days Vinyl

Author:T Bone Burnett

“In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.”

Depth Surface

Author:Rudolf Carnap

“However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!”

Shows Earth Models Opposites Available Surface Data Faster Atmosphere

Author:David Douglass

“A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.”

Use Problem Night Deals Sun Air One Day Hot Surface Fuel Gas Balloons Overboard Hot Air Helium Ballast Air Balloons Hot Air Balloons

Author:Steve Fossett

“Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.”

Way Draws Add Surface Relief Flats Sculpture

Author:Urs Fischer

“On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.”

Easy Surface Love Each Other

Author:Kathy Acker

“Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.”

Two Earth Water Thirds Surface Covered Headquarters Auditors

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.”

Trying Rooms Cry Lonely Crowds Surface

Author:Smokey Robinson

“The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.”

Ifs May Science Certain Found Given Pleasure Pure Bases Productions Surface Exclusive Geometry Absorbing Riemann

Author:Albert Einstein

“We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.”

Shows Earth Science Lines Simple Common Built Stones Remains Surface Gravity Towers Parallels Descent Straight Lines

Author:Galileo Galilei

“[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.”

Culture Interest Appearance Stranger Surface Collections Constraints

Book:After Virtue

Source: After Virtue

“Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.”

People Way Feels Normal Surface Uncomfortable Ashamed Display Scratches

Author:Michael Fassbender

“Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.”

Used Support Sun Method Surface Nuclear Reactions Temperature Fusion Hotter Nuclear Fusion

Book:The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention

Source: The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention

“The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.”

Looks Lines Faults Surface Peaceful Insecurity Smooth Prosperous American Life

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.”

Wells Care Don't Care Surface I Don't Care

Author:Daniela Hantuchova

“It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.”

Force Results Sea Effects Wind Areas Crosses Tasks Weight Surface Resistance Giants Angle Crops Ratios

Author:Lawrence Hargrave

“Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.”

Thinking Sides Leader Security Solutions Fairs Committed Surface Both Sides

Author:Bobby Ray Inman

“That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?”

Feels Writing Persons Doe Desire Cutting Regret Longing Surface Sensations Inner Life

Author:Nicole Krauss

“Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.”

Knows Home Earth Nature Attention Written Land Areas Affection Surface Portions Traveler Lifelong Concentrating Stay At Home Naturalist

Author:Edwin Way Teale

“On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.”

Persons Philosophy Animal Surface Scratches

Author:Ray Davies

“That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.”

Mind Looks Running Fine Surface

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

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