“But if the arrow is straight
And the point is slick
It can pierce through dust no matter how thick”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Restless Farewell
2010s, 2010, One year out: Obama's fall (2010)
“But if the arrow is straight
And the point is slick
It can pierce through dust no matter how thick”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Restless Farewell
Brian Greene book The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Fabric of the Cosmos : Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004), p. 17
Context: Superstring theory starts off by proposing a new answer to an old question: what are the smallest, indivisible constituents of matter? For many decades, the conventional answer has been that matter is composed of particles... that can be modeled as dots that are indivisible and that have no size and no internal structure. Conventional theory claims, and experiments confirm, that these particles combine in various ways to produce protons, neutrons, and a wide variety of atoms and molecules... Superstring theory tells a different story.... it does claim that these particles are not dots. Instead... every particle is composed of a tiny filament of energy, some hundred billion billion times smaller than a single atomic nucleus, which is shaped like a string. And just as a violin string can vibrate in different patterns, each of which produces a different musical tone, the filaments of superstring theory can also vibrate in different patterns. But these vibrations... produce different particle properties.... All species of particles are unified in superstring theory since each arises from a different vibrational pattern executed by the same underlying entity.
“No matter what you wear… to me, you will always have diamonds on the soles of your shoes.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Avenged
“Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.”
Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
First sentence in his 2004 book, Speaking out.
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
1990s, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish
“Ideas matter, policy matters.”
Jeb Bush (1953) American politician, former Governor of Florida
Concession speech https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jeb-bush-suspends-2016-campaign/2016/02/20/d3a7315a-d721-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html (20 February 2016). <br class="br">2016
Theodore Roszak (1933–2011) American social historian, social critic, writer
The Making of the Counter Culture (1969)