George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Source: "As I Please," Tribune (4 August 1944)
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" Some Concepts In Reaction Dynamics http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1986/polanyi-lecture.pdf" (8 December 1986), as published in Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1986, p. 403.
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Source: "As I Please," Tribune (4 August 1944)
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Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/On_Idolatry/Of_the_Observance_of_Days_Connected_with_Idolatry Chapter 13, On Idolatry
David W. Oxtoby (1951) President of Pomona college
Principles of Modern Chemistry (7th ed., 2012), Ch. 3 : Classical Bonding: The Classical Description
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
Source: The Dragons of Eden (1977), Chapter 2, “Genes and Brains” (p. 27)
“Other nations of the world summon my modest efforts of assistance.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Farewell letter to Fidel Castro (1965)
Bo Xilai (1949) former Politburo member of the Communist Party of China
Source: Excerpts of letter to his first wife (14 July 1975)
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Lecture II : The Universal Categories, §3. Laws: Nominalism, CP 5.65
Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)
Context: All nature abounds in proofs of other influences than merely mechanical action, even in the physical world. They crowd in upon us at the rate of several every minute. And my observation of men has led me to this little generalization. Speaking only of men who really think for themselves and not of mere reporters, I have not found that it is the men whose lives are mostly passed within the four walls of a physical laboratory who are most inclined to be satisfied with a purely mechanical metaphysics. On the contrary, the more clearly they understand how physical forces work the more incredible it seems to them that such action should explain what happens out of doors. A larger proportion of materialists and agnostics is to be found among the thinking physiologists and other naturalists, and the largest proportion of all among those who derive their ideas of physical science from reading popular books.
“Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”
Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw
Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw
“A diatomic molecule is a molecule with one atom too many.”
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921–1999) American physicist
as quoted in [Dave DeMille, Diatomic molecules, a window onto fundamental physics, Physics Today, 2015, December, 34, 68, 12, 10.1063/PT.3.3020]