Squigglequotes
Isaac Newton
“The beatles power of life and will by which animals move their bodies with great and lasting force demonstrate that there has to be other undiscovered laws of motion.” —Sir Isaac Newton
Neils Bohr
“If you hold opposites together in your mind, you will suspend your normal thinking and allow intelligence beyond rational thought to create a new form.”—Niels Bohr
Samuel Beckett
“The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables discourse to continue. The danger is in the neatness of identifications.” —S. Beckett
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frank Wilczek
“The world is simple and complex, logical and weird, lawful and chaotic. Fundamental understanding does not resolve these dualities. Indeed it highlights and deepens them. You can’t do justice to physical reality without taking complementarity to heart.” —Frank Wilczek
Benoit Mandelbrot
“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth. Nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” —Benoit Mandelbrot
Howard H. Pattee
“I do not see any way to avoid the problem of coordination and still understand the physical basis of life.” —Howard H. Pattee
Seamus Heaney
“Strange how things in the offing, once they’re sensed, Convert to things foreknown; And how what’s come upon is manifest Only in light of what has been gone through. Seventh heaven may be
The whole truth of a sixth sense come to pass.” —Seamus Heaney
Wolfgang Pauli
“To us, the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality, the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical, as compatable with each other and can embrace them simultaneously.” —Wolgang Pauli
