“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”
As quoted by James Gleick in Lasers slow atom for scrutiny, The New York Times, July 13, 1986: Explaining how atoms are cooled.
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“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
“Powerless Atoms of Eternity
Why should we hope to know of Something higher?”
Quotes from "The Blind Desire", using the pseudonym "Charles A. Ballance" in William and Mary College Monthly (September 1897), V, p. 51
Context: Nay, 'tis not fitting that we should require
Within this World but Raiment, Food and Fire;
Powerless Atoms of Eternity
Why should we hope to know of Something higher? This Knowledge could but add, not lessen. Woe;
The Magian who To-day forms fire with snow
Shares with the Sudra in Infinity.
We come from Nothing and to Nothing go. So best consent, although with forced grace,
Upon this dingy Ball to run our race
Untrammeled with the thoughts of higher things,
Until we reach the shadowy Stopping place.
On consumers being willing to avoid abuses in “Wage Theft, Slavery, and Climate Change on the Outlaw Ocean” https://civileats.com/2019/09/27/wage-theft-slavery-and-climate-change-on-the-outlaw-ocean/ (Civil Eats; 2019 Sep 27)
“A sensitive person gets burned, like a delicate moth.”
Der Sensible muß verbrennen, dieser zarte Nachtfalter.
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The Piano Teacher (1988)
“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”
Source: Bag of Bones