Isaac Newton Quotes
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice to their magnifiying effect. On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.
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I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
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I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.
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I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.
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What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.
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I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.
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I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.
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Remember: the force will be with you always...
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To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.
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Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?
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I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
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It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
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The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
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This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice to their magnifiying effect. On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society.